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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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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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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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The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
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I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.
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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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The only term I won't accept is genius.
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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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My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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The term genius gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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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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