Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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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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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There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.
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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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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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I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
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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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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 wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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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 never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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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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There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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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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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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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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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.
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I've still got a twinkle in me.