Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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.
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I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.
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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 it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
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I bet you can't play slide piano.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
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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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When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
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I don't think I've aged gracefully.
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I've still got a twinkle in me.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.