Led Zeppelin Quotes
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I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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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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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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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'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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I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
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If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
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There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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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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The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
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There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
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Alone I'm nothing.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.