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" Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer. "
Guitar
Music
People
" I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014. "
Good
I Am
Music
" I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. "
I Believe
Guitar
Believe
" I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. "
Think
Critics
Doing
" If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread. "
New
Doing
Done
" If people want to find things, they find them themselves. "
People
Want
Things
" I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always. "
Spark
Always
Creative
" I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing. "
I Believe
Myself
Believe
" I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing. "
Looking
Angel
Broken
" I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it. "
You
Play
Trying
" I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too. "
Me
Know
Loyal
" I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot. "
Like
You
Play
" I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much. "
Really
Led
Led Zeppelin
" Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security. "
Isolation
Sense
Security
" I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. "
Think
Serious
Roots
" I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records. "
American
Learning
Me
" Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were. "
Sum
Sum Total
Heart
" Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. "
Day
Character
Me
" My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It's normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish. "
Family
Up
Guitar
" Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham. "
Chance
Good Times
Play
" The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums. "
Me
Buy
Vinyl
" The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good. "
Start
Lose
Cleaning
" The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight. "
Good Times
Bad
Changes
" The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it? "
Attitude
Got
Guitar
" Time sometimes passes quite quickly. "
Quickly
Passes
Sometimes
" You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin. "
Chance
You
Time
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