Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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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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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People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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My dad played fiddle as well.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy 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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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 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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The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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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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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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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'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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Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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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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We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.