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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term genius, but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

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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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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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 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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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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