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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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James Patrick Page
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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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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term genius, but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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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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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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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 have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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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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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world. I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
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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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