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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.

Jimmy Page

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can’t really compare it to how it is today.
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Compare Day Mouth Right Time Word Yourself
My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Album Development Guitar Identity Myself Play Style
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.
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Change Different Element Oneself Reason Togetherness
I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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Copy Listening Myself Time
I’m not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I’m turned on to… if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Finding Interest Myself People
There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Age Myself Reach Serious Thinking
There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Art Dreams Guitar Important Myself Name Style Wealth
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Guitar Music Myself
Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Play Presence Yourself
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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Creativity Man Mess School Teacher Wrong Yourself
You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness Yourself
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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Army Build Composition Guitar Myself
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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Business Goodness Musician World
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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Change Degree Experience Fans Life Music Musician

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.

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