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So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.
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With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
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The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
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The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
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Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.
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Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
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I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
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There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.
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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.
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You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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I'm a grandfather now.
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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.
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I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
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Does anyone remember laughter?
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The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
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I think I surprise myself.
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I still like to get carried away - but passively.
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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
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I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
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Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.