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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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James Patrick Page
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciļ¬c moment is what drives it.
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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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From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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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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I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
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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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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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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.
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I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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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'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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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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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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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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