Led Zeppelin Quotes
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There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.
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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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We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
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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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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.
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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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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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I like change and I like contrast.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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My dad played fiddle as well.
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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciļ¬c moment is what drives it.
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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
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I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
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I hate cliche.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
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I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
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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.
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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
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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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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.