Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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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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 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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If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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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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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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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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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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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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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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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 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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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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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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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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There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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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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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.