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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.

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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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'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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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 are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
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The only term I won't accept is genius.
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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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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.
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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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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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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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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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