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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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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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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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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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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.
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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 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 at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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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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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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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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You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.
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