Led Zeppelin Quotes
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Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
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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'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
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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 are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.
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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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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'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
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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 think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 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 know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm 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 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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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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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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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.
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You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.