Led Zeppelin Quotes
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Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
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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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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've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
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I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.
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When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.
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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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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.
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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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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
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If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.
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I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
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Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
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Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!
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My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
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If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
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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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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.