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I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
I've still got a twinkle in me.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I bet you can't play slide piano.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I don't think I've aged gracefully.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
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?
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
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.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
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.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin