Led Zeppelin Quotes
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We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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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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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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The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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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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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.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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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.
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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.