Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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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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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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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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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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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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 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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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
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I hate wasting time.
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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
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The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
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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'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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I spend a lot of time near water.
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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.