Led Zeppelin Quotes
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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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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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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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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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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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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
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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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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
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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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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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We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
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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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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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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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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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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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The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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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 greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.