Led Zeppelin Quotes
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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
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I think I'm prone to panic.
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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'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
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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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All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
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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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A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
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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 deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.
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We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship of the band has given it the longevity. I thought the music would endure, I didn't think I would ... I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.
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I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
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There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.