Led Zeppelin Quotes
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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 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'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.
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Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
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I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
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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 daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
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Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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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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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.