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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.

Jimmy Page

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Culture Musician Myself Obvious Season Thinking
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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Best Explode Expression Guitar Love Music Myself Tension Transformation World
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 term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that’s what I wanted it to be.
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Guitar Myself Play Vehicle
There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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Application Genius Music Standard Start Yourself
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Expensive Friendship Guitar Hard Instrument Myself Play Point Relative
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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Artist Creation Environment Help Learning Yourself
I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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Heaven Level Myself Solo Tradition
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Country Development Drink Fear Fly Myself Scare Terrify
You can’t just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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Happiness Yourself
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Guitar Music Myself
I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Deal Emotion Expectation Further Important Myself Side
I really don’t like showing people how I play things; it’s a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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Embarrassment Myself People Play Show Simplicity
The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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Acceptance Genius Myself

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.

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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.

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