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The term genius gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 81
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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James Patrick Page
Jim Page
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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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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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