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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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The only term I won't accept is genius.
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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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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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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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
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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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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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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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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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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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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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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