Quotes
'Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music, topped with heavy choruses-a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music.' -- Jimmy Page, (1993)
'My vocation is more in composition really than in anything else- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.' -- Jimmy Page
'I was seduced by rock and roll at an early age, that's for sure.' -- Jimmy Page
'I've always liked drums to be big and powerful. I've never been into using cymbals overmuch. I use them to crash into a solo and out of it, but basically I prefer the actual drum sound. To me drums sound better than cymbals.' -- John Bonham
'They're critics because they don't have the talent to play music.' -- Robert Plant in response to the critics' antipathy towards Zeppelin
'At our very worst, we were better than most people. And at our very best, we could just wipe the floor with the lot of them.' -- John Paul Jones on Zeppelin's live shows
When asked what was up with his double-neck guitar: '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.' -- Jimmy Page
'It's all right for you. All you got to do is go out there and look good, wiggle your ass, because nobody gives a fuck whether you miss a note or not.' -- John Bonham speaking to Robert Plant
'The music is what matters. Let people buy it because they like the music. I don't want ANY writing on the cover! Period!' -- Jimmy Page talking about Zeppelin's fourth album
'I'm never gonna trust a toilet seat again.' -- John Bonham after nearly being sucked into a toilet on an airplane by way of air pressure
'It feels great just being out there playing music. But once the crowd gets going, it's absolute lunacy. The energy from those fans drives me beyond the point of no return.' -- John Bonham
'So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take. You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it. If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill. That's why I say I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing. Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.' -- Jimmy Page, 1975