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But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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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 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.
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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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