Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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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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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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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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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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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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
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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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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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It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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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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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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I hate cliche.
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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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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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We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.
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I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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My dad played fiddle as well.