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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin -
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin
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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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
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!
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin -
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin
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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin -
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin -
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin