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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.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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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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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.
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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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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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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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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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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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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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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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.
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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.
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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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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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