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The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

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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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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If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.
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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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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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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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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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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.
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The term genius gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
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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'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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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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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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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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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