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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.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
James Patrick Page
Jim Page
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Blues
Intensity
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Manufactured
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.
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There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
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I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I don't go walking into things blind.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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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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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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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
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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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You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.
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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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