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Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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James Patrick Page
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Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
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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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You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
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It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world. I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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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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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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If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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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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There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.
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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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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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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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