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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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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.
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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.
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I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.
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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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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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The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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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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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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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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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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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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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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