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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

Jimmy Page

You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciﬁc moment is what drives it.
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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Better Communication Guitar Instrument Myself
I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Experience Musician Myself Reality Thinking Time Travel World
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
Seeing people’s faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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Face Genuine Happiness Myself People
Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Play Presence Yourself
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Believe Myself Work
I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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Music Myself Pattern See Slow Thinking
I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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Afraid Death Greatness Myself Mystery Race Time
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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Music Myself School See Teaching
You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Music Myself Race Time
There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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Affect Audience Live Music People Point Relate Yourself
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
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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Decoration Greatness Help Myself Need Satisfaction
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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Africa Blue Culture Ideas Move Pieces Prime Time Yourself

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

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