Led Zeppelin Quotes
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I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
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No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
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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 hate wasting time.
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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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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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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 think I'm prone to panic.
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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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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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I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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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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Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
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You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.
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There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
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My dad played fiddle as well.
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I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
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Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
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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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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
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There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.