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I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.
Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.
The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.
I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.
I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.
Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.
I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.
I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.
Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
If you listen to our work, from 'Led Zeppelin I' to 'Coda,' it's just a fantastic textbook.
I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.
Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.
I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.