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This document began originally as part of my Trivia File, the I.F.M.T.L. (In-Frequently Murmured Trivia File), but due to its rapidly expanding size, it quickly became one of the biggest, if not the biggest section. I then seemed like a worthwhile idea to excerpt it, and make it into a separate entity. Here then is the result.
This document is envisaged by the compiler as being a concise repository for the utterances of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. It also includes various quotes from artists who have been influenced by Led Zeppelin, and from others... who, well, haven't been influenced in the slighest! I hope you enjoy this file, or find it of interest, or find that deleting it is a great way of helping your disk quota, or, well, just get something from it!
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Steve Wheeler.
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"Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first
album."
- Jimmy Page on `Led Zeppelin'. From the liner notes with the first
boxed set.
"We were touring a lot. Jimmy's riffs were coming fast and furious.
A lot of them caem from on-stage especially during the long impro-
-vised section of `Dazed and Confused'. We'd remember the good
stuff and dart into a studio along the way."
- John Paul Jones on `Led Zeppelin II'. From the liner notes with
the first boxed set.
"The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the
first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different
from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together."
- Jimmy Page on `Led Zeppelin III'. From the liner notes with the
first boxed set.
"Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the
album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to
the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record
wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people
said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what
we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at
all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still
got bad reviews!"
- Jimmy Page, Guitar World, 1/91.
"No-one ever compared us to Black Sabbath after this record."
- John Paul Jones on the untitled fourth album. From the liner
notes with the first boxed set.
"We had a lot of problems with the artwork. We'd taken trouble on
the LP so there didn't seem to be any reason to compromise. It
was a very difficult process, because of the amount of colour
involved. In the end, they never got it right and it's just a
piece of paper in a CD box now - so there you go."
- Robert Plant on `Houses Of The Holy'. From the liner notes with
the first boxed set.
"I can remember Bonzo, Plant, Page and Jones out on the lawn
listening to playbacks of "D'Yer Mak'er" and "Dancing Days" all
walking like Groucho Marx in sync, with back steps and foward steps
in time to the music like kids."
- Eddie Kramer, recording Engineer.
"Jimmy is the man who is the music. He goes away to his house and
works on it a lot and then brings it to the band in its skeletal
state. Slowly everybody brings their personality into it. This
new flower sort of grows out of it. `Ten Years Gone' was pain-
-stakingly pieced together from sections he'd written. After the
tremendous concentration on a song like that, we'll play anything
to loosen up. Out of that came `Trampled Underfoot' and `Custard
Pie'. Before you know it you've got something that moves."
- Robert Plant on `Physical Graffiti'. From the liner notes with
the first boxed set.
"There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket
designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of
power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That
was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more
important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very
tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001.
I think it's quite amusing."
- Jimmy Page on `Presence'. From
the liner notes with the first boxed set.
"I remember that tour rather like the lyrics to `Battle Of Ever-
-more'. A flash. Really fast. Lots of battles and conquests.
And the din of the hordes. So much happened in such a short
time. It was phenomenal."
- Robert Plant on 'The Song Remains The Same'. From the liner
notes with the first boxed set.
"(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no
point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of
where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me
to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see
how it stands up."
- Jimmy Page, NME, 20/11/76.
"I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks."
- Robert Plant, in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"It wasn't the most comfortable album. I think it was very
transitional... a springboard for what could have been."
- Jimmy Page on `In Through The Out Door'. From the liner notes
with the first boxed set.
"In its place it was fine, but I wouldn't have wanted to pursue that
direction any further in the future."
- Jimmy Page, on "All My Love", in the December 1993 issue of
_Guitar_World_.
"They were good tracks. A lot of it was recorded around the time
punk was really happening... basically there wasn't a lot of
Zeppelin tracks that didn't go out. We used everything."
- John Paul Jones on `Coda'. From the liner notes with the
first boxed set.
"Well, we were all high on the Moroccan dope at the time, so who
knows?"
- Robert Plant, on the meaning of "Stairway To Heaven".
"I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in
every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some
importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't
know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records
show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank
you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no
more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me."
- Robert Plant, _Los_Angeles_
_Times_, 12/6/88.
"People ask, `What was it like when you wrote Stairway to Heaven?'
As if three wisemen had come knocking on the door, `Excuse me, are
you writing Stairway to Heaven here?'"
- John Paul Jones, 1990.
"(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive
little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin
song. `Kashmir' is."
- Robert Plant, Rolling Stone, 24/3/88.
"Stairway To Heaven I first heard when Page played me an intro and I
picked up a bass recorder that was lying there and played the first
line."
- John Paul Jones, in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"I can't even make myself say those 3 words."
- Robert Plant, in an interview preceeding "Unledded" on VH-1.
"Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in
another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best,
expressing myself through guitar."
- Jimmy Page, _Los_Angeles_Times_, 3/7/88.
"Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage
with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another
20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I
don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling...
vultures."
- Jimmy Page, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"Of all the hair that ever was, (mine) was some of the best, but it
had had its day. The screaming, ga-ga, standing there chest bared
- those were cliches. They were MY cliches, but it was time to put
them in the drawer and close it."
- Robert Plant, _People_.
"Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs
all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if
you're going to be remembered."
- Robert Plant, _NME_, 23/6/73.
"It's not only that we think we're the best group in the world, it's
just that in our minds we're so much better than whoever is number
two."
- Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what
people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and
end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached,
well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit."
- Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 6/76.
"Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius."
- Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 7/74.
"All this success and fame... what is it worth?"
- Robert Plant, _Los_Angeles_Times_, 4/1/81.
"You see, my little boy's just started to walk, and I haven't seen
him bloomin' walk yet. These are the things that upset you about
being on the road: the very fact that you miss fantastic occasions
like that."
- Robert Plant, _NME_, 23/6/73.
"I am a Golden God"
- Robert Plant, L.A., 1975.
"I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much."
- Robert Plant, in _Guitar_World_, on what he listens to these days.
"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just
developed, until it became the girlish whine that it is today..."
- Robert Plant.
"Well, I think he's a fucking idiot. Horses for courses: I've worked
with Phil Johnstone - nobody's perfect."
- Robert Plant, on David Coverdale, in the December 1994 issue of
_Mojo_.
"I already had a cigar in my back."
- Robert Plant, on his early recording contract with CBS and the
sappy ballads he had to record.
"We just want to write songs, have a ball, tell a few lies and make
some fucking great music. And really, a 90's audience? What the
fuck is a 90's audience?"
- Robert Plant, in the December 1994 issue of _Vox_.
"I think grunge likes punk much better than grunge. We're far too
old to be blamed for anything."
- Robert Plant, in the December issue of _Q_.
"Look, he's a recovering catholic!"
- Robert Plant, noting Jimmy Page's t-shirt slogan on _Denton_.
"If we can just find a chorus now we'll have a hit!"
- Robert Plant, on _Denton_.
"Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home
at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain
ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a
certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience
I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a
certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza."
- Robert Plant, on _Denton_.
"I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure."
- Jimmy Page, _Rolling_Stone_, 21/8/76.
"I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock. The young musicians
will emerge again, but through the level of really good writing,
with depth and intellect. It will be back to composition as in
classical music or jazz."
- Jimmy Page, _Sounds_, 10/7/76.
"I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music,
street music, the parallels between a country's street music and
its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain
scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological
and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance
music? That's the thing."
- Jimmy Page, _Sounds_, 13/3/76.
"Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence."
- Jimmy Page, 1966.
"I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition
as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me."
- Jimmy Page.
"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."
- Jimmy Page, on similarities between his playing during the days
of Led Zeppelin and on "Coverdale/Page." USA Today, April 2,
1993.
"I bet you can't play slide piano."
- Jimmy Page, challenging Tori Amos.
"I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all.
Just two guitarists doing it instead of one."
- Jimmy Page, on his part in the session work for The Who's "I Can't
Explain."
"It was Moon, I'm sure, despite everything that Entwistle may have
said. In fact, I'm quite certain Richard Cole asked Moon for his
permission we decided to use the name. Entwistle must have just
been upset that the original Led Zeppelin never took off."
- Jimmy Page, on the origins of the band's name.
"I might send a book back by psychic communication after I've passed
over. ... I shall bury my book with me in the coffin so that it
gets raided..."
- Jimmy Page, on the subject of books about Zeppelin, in the
December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"No, he can't do that. It's totally inaccurate, and he's the sort of
person that who ought to know better, considering he's been in AA,
and the whole thing about AA is that you keep things discreet. He
went into AA as a chronic alcoholic and came out a chronic liar."
- Jimmy Page on Richard Cole, author of "Led Zeppelin Uncensored",
in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not
allowed out in daylight hours."
- Jimmy Page, on a typical day in his life, in the December 1994
issue of _Vox_.
"No, because I enjoy making noise as much as I enjoy playing acoustic
guitar."
- Jimmy Page, in the December 1994 issue of _Vox_.
"When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was
telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues
guitarist. I'm a guitarist."
- Jimmy Page, in the December 1994 issue of _Vox_.
"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, responding to a question about his multiple necked
guitars on _Denton_.
"Plus, he can do "Jake The Peg" and we can't!"
- Jimmy Page, on Rolf Harris, on _Denton_.
"I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world."
- John Bonham.
"He will either end up as a dustman or a millionaire."
- One of John Bonham's early school reports.
"All three James Brown drummers, although I hhave seen all of them
standing around him at the Newport Jazz Festival in disbelief,
wondering how one guy does what all three of them did."
- John Paul Jones, on Bonham, in _Guitar_Player_.
"When we played in L.A., it was actually John's birthday. Keith Moon
was there, and he loved Keith Moon, and Keith Moon certainly loved
him. ... He let Keith Moon come up and play during his solo, which
I don't think he would let any other drummer do. There was great
respect between the two of them."
- Jimmy Page, on Bonham, in _Guitar_Player_.
"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 to Robert Plant, during one of their good-natured
arguments, in Japan.
"Even now I have a piece of paper I stuck on top of the Mellotron
which says: `Kashmir' - remember the coda!"
- John Paul Jones, in _Guitar_Player_, July 1977.
"Listen, I'm a fun-loving guy. A great philosopher once said, `them
dreams are only in your head.' (giggles) Don't get me wrong, I
haven't quieted down or anything. I've just found more intricate
ways of enjoying myself. There's more to me than just those
stories, and I'd like to think people pick up more on that side of
me than the image of a pop brawling, street fighting kind of image.
I'm not exactly a sensible, thoughtful person, but I do love the
feeling of being together with people. I love my work -
communication on a vast level. My lyrics are more me than anything
you've heard about me from the waist down. I mean, we have good
times. That's why I have the curtains drawn, just in case I fancy
pushing you out the window."
- Robert Plant, _Daily_News_, 26/5/74.
"While we had a reputation as rampaging sexual vandals, the truth is
that most of the time we were looking for nothing at bedtime other
than a good paperback."
- Robert Plant, _Us_, 10/10/85.
"You're talking to the new Robert Plant. I mean, my perspective has
changed on a lot of things. I've been through so many tours now, I
just see that there are means of making it more enjoyable without
having to rush into anything or burning yourself out. Certainly if
there is any raping or looting about... it's done with the best
possible taste, I suppose. We still manage to entertain ourselves
as a right young bunch of executives."
- Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"I think I've got one of the finest ladies in the world and it
wouldn't do her any good (to bring her on the road) because she's
not up on that stage. So she'd get tired and would want to know
why we weren't doing this and that, and the very fact that I've
just woken up and it's three o'clock in the afternoon and the
shops shut at six, and there's no shopping to be done today and
all that sort of thing... it isn't practical."
- Robert Plant, _NME_, 23/6/73.
"Busy, busy, movin' like a hell, like a song as it were. [Pause]
Yes, What is and what should never be. [laughs]"
- Robert Plant on the 1973 Tour Schedule.
"...It was one of the first shows as the New Yardbirds, on a field
near Uppsala, people were incredibly drunk and throwing earth..."
- Robert Plant, on the band's first trip to Sweden.
"I think I opened it up in the middle somewhere and started to read
it, and I just threw it out the window. I was living by a river
then, so it actually found its way to the bottom of the sea."
- Jimmy Page, on Stephen Davis' "Hammer Of The Gods".
"I believe that Jimmy was very into black magic and probably did a
lot of rituals, black candles, bat's blood, the whole thing. I
believe he did that stuff."
- Pamela Des Barres.
"Yes, well those interviews were a bit hard. The questions would be
so... I mean, asking me about black magic and Aleister Crowley and
whatnot. Gimme a break! It's all so stupid. I'd rather talk about
the music, you know? It's much better to talk about the music."
- Jimmy Page, _Guitar_World_, 1/91.
"I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of
all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The
thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now."
- Jimmy Page, _Rolling_Stone_, 12/8/76.
"I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th
century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person,
of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to
frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown,
depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further
this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot
of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the
line."
- Jimmy Page, _Sounds_, 13/3/78.
"Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't
think he was wrong."
- Jimmy Page, quoted in _Hammer_Of_The_Gods_, so there is a high
probability this was at the very least taken out of context.
"There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's
personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and
dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and
luxury. You just have to go on living."
- Robert Plant, _Us_, 10/10/85.
"(John Bonham's death) was one of the most flattening, heartbreaking
parts of my life. I had a great warm bighearted friend I haven't
got anymore. It was so final. I never even thought about the
future of the band or music."
- Robert Plant, _People_.
"To a large degree, the punks were right. Groups like Deep Purple
and Black Sabbath had lost the point, if they ever had it, and I
thought Led Zeppelin had lost the point too, around the time of
In Through The Out Door."
- Robert Plant.
"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 Led Zeppelin's live ability.
"Every record is a portrait of the band at that time."
- Jimmy Page.
"No. Not really. We just wanted to write really good music that
would hold up on its own. Chart music tends to be a little
disposable."
- Jimmy Page, when asked whether he ever wanted Zeppelin to have
a hit single.
"See, we were fortunate in those days not to have to do singles.
There was no point where we thought, `well, now we've got to write
the big single.' It was an album market at the time. So each
album reflected where we were, mentally, at the time. We had done
a few gigs before the first album,but then we went in and recorded
it in a short amount of time. And the second album was actually
done while we were on the road, so a lot of that energy comes
through. The third album was written during what was, sort of, the
first tour break in the band's career. The album reflected that
break in our schedule - it was mellower. We got a great critical
hammering because everyone was expecting something with the same
sort of force as the second. But then even the fourth album got
bad reviews. And it's great to sit here and say, `they were
wrong.'"
- Jimmy Page, _Guitar_World_, 1991.
"It was a very nice experience which I miss not one iota."
- Robert Plant, on his days with Led Zeppelin.
"But it was wonderful being on the inside. Wonderful."
- John Paul Jones, in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"If all that snow were cocaine, Jethro Tull could do a winter season
here."
- Robert Plant, looking out a plane window after taking off
from Canada in the early days of Zeppelin.
"Ian (Anderson) is a pain in the ass. We toured with `Jethro Dull'
once and I think he probably spoke three words to Jimmy or I at any
one time... (Page) had a title for a live album when Jethro was
playing in LA, `Bore 'Em At The Forum.'"
- John Paul Jones, _Guitar_World_.
"Heavy metal is a sham. There's nothing threatening about (it)
except the artists. It's mindless, it's not a reflection of
something sociological. I don't think Zeppelin was their
inspiration - Tiny Tim was. It was glam-rock, With rockabilly
or rock'n'roll years ago, it was built around sex and just plain
revolt. But this some kind of demented dwarf giving strange hand
signals as he walks out of a volcano on stage. It's tacky. And
it's just rank and file, like checking into a factory..."
- Robert Plant, _New_York_Post_, 17/5/88.
"...Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent.
These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come
to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them,
and I don't think it's right."
- Robert Plant, _NME_, 32/6/73.
"Porl prefers to play things that aren't very tied down."
- Robert Plant, on ex-The Cure guitarist Porl Thompson, in the
September 1992 issue of _Guitar_Player_.
"I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small
riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!"
- Robert Plant in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"It's like the Emperor's new clothes. Suede, and people like that."
- Robert Plant, when asked about the band Oasis, in the December
1994 issue of _Vox_.
"Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are
classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never
seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a
broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album
and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?"
- Edward Van Halen, in the January 1981 issue of _Guitar_World_.
"While Zeppelin was onstage, before we were to go on, we knew it was
over..."
- The lead guitarist of Iron Butterfly, in _Discoveries_.
"Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you
just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since
you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!"
- Tori Amos, during a show in Northhampton, MA, in October, 1994.
"He said, '$100,000. That's not much, especially when you have to
split it in three. That was a big disappointment. I never tried
so hard and was willing to spend so much on something and didn't
get it."
- Richard Linklater, Director of "Dazed And Confused", in the
2/10/94 edition of _The_Los_Angeles_Times_, on Robert Plant and
his refusal to allow Linklater to use the song "Rock And Roll"
in his film.
"Those guys don't really care about money; that's the weird thing."
- Richard Linklater, director of the film "Dazed And Confused" after
his attempts to get the right to use a Zeppelin song in the film.
"[Plant] killed it at the last second. Not only was he more remote
but he has all these little troopers who do everything for him, and
they were, like, 'No,no,no.' I don't know if I really got to him...
I think it's ridiculous, but - oh, well.'"
- Richard Linklater, director of the film "Dazed And Confused" on
how he was thwarted in attempting to use a Zeppelin song in the
film.
"...I think we did 30 minutes and there were 25 songs a set. No one
had ever seen anything like it. Our shows used to be (for) the
Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the guys from Led Zeppelin... All those
people would come and see us because we were good and it reminded
them of where they came from. People like the Stones and Robert
Plant... that's their thing. Robert's favorite singer is Gene
Vincent. Nobody ever asks him that, but that's what he would tell
you..."
- Slim Jim Phanton (aka Jim McDonnell), drummer from The Stray Cats,
from an article in _Goldmine_.
"A lot of it stems from my early involvement with things like Jimmy
Page, the energy side of his playing. In the past, that type of
playing was always frowned upon in the group. It was a joke - Boris
and I would be doing Zepplin covers at the sound check, and we'd
stop when everyone else showed up. But actually, we used to do
Zeppelin covers like `In My Time of Dying' in the very early days."
- Porl Thompson, ex-The Cure guitarist, in the September 1992 issue
of _Guitar_Player_.
"If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page, the girlies I like are
underage."
- The Beastie Boys.
"One of the things we picked up from Zep in the 70's is they would
play the same notes on guitar and bass and follow it, they play all
these lines together like leads together, which made for heavy."
- Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, on Zeppelin, Egos and
Icons.
"There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg
video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've
been bootlegged.'"
- Tori Amos.
"It wasn't like Zeppelin was out on the road all the time. The
Stones weren't always coming to your town. We were"
- Joe Perry, lead guitarist of Aerosmith, on Zeppelin, Egos, and
Icons.
"I have masturbated to that song lots of times, and many of my
girlfriends too. Sometimes all of us in one room with "Thank You"
on the record player. ... My left hand can play piano very well
for a very long time."
- Tori Amos on "Thank You", a cover of which she recorded for her
"Crucfiy" EP.
"Rock stars don't date. We're [pause]... friends."
- Alannah Myles, on whether she dated Robert Plant, in the
_Victoria_Times-Colonist_, Febuary 10, 1994.
"My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with
virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things
on my mind... like Robert Plant."
- Tori Amos.
"I don't know that I feel anything like that really. You see, if you
aim for the marketplace 100%, like Jimmy Page did, or Robert Plant
particularly did, if you aim for the marketplace 100% and you don't
get it, then that's a failure of intelligence because you've got,
say with Plant, you've got a pop talent that's massive there,
there's a massive talent. He knows how to take an old blues song
that's been around for a hundred years, and turn it into something
that's immediately AM radio for 18 year-olds. That's a huge pop
talent. If you go for that and you fail, you fail because you
haven't got it upstairs. That's to say, if you've got the amount of
talent that he's got vocally, and as a stage performer. But mine...
Jesus, I wouldn't think... you see, I'm such an oddball. The longer
I live the more I know that I could never have got through, never...
what did you say?"
- Roy Harper.
"I only met Page once after that - the Pentangle reunion [1982]. We
were at Heathrow going to Australia or somewhere, and he was there
in the International Lounge. Danny spotted him. So we went up and
said hello, but he was completely, absolutely pissed. He had a
French wife, or something, who was chasing him all over the place,
and a large glass of brandy in his hand... and that was the last I
saw of him."
- Bert Jansch, in the December 1994 issue of _Mojo_.
"I steal from Jimmy Page all the time. You're too conservative.
Go back and listen, you'll hear I steal from him."
- Tori Amos, in _The_San_Francisco_Examiner_, 3/9/94.
"Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be
terrible!"
- Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"Rather than being some roller coaster money machine, all gauche and
vulgar, I give you The Fate Of Nations."
- Robert Plant, extolling the virtues of his new album, in _Guitar_
_World_, December 1993, page 178.
"From the very beginning of this project, around January 1991, right
after the Manic Nirvana tour, I knew what I was going to do: go back
into my past, listening to Grape, the Airplane, Tim Hardin,
Quicksilver, Traffic, and other turning-point artists in rock.
These people were trying to tell the listener something, joining
various traditions, with the sense of a quest being insinuated and
bandied in their acoustic and electronic themes. I'm also proud of
what I've attempted to do lyrically, trying to tell vivid tales that
come from a hearty tradition of prose. Things have changed since
the glory days of teen lust ... If `Stairway To Heaven' had just
been about cruising in a convertible, it wouldn't have endured in a
meaningful way."
- Robert Plant, on "Fate of Nations."
"Robert wanted things from Doug as a guitar player ...and Doug is
a really good guitar player. But there are some people who are
brilliant performers and some people are brilliant writers.
Beethoven was a brilliant improvisationist, but he wasn't a
brilliant performer. Paganini was a brilliant violinist but he
couldn't write any music that would survive the test of time. So
there you have Paganini on the guitar and Robert going - Come on,
give us a riff! You know it's an impossible task to ask anybody
unless they're meant to do it. You know there's plenty of riffs by
these horrible bands with their spandex trousers going 'diddley
diddley diddley', ripping off every riff that might have come out of
England since 1968, really vile. And Doug just couldn't do that,
and he's standing there trying for Robert, and it was terrible and
we're all going 'Ughh!'. ... Doug is a great guitar player, who
unfortunately had been asked the wrong thing... he's actually doing
all right Doug, and I'm glad. He's happier and some of the pressures
are off... he's a brilliant player you know... but in the end...
well, a lot of it comes down to personalities."
- Phil Johnstone, from the _Nirvana_ fanzine, about the departure of
Doug Boyle from Robert Plant's band.
"No, that's holy ground. That's sacred."
- Robert Plant, when asked what he thought about using Zeppelin
material in 1982.
"I haven't used that old band to go after an audience."
- Robert Plant, _Select_.
"I mean, the level of acceptance for Zep now is ridiculous."
- Robert Plant, _Select_.
"It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting
from my present and pointing towards the future."
- Robert Plant, _Milwaukee Journal_.
"I'm tipping the hat and looking back."
- Robert Plant, on using Zeppelin material in 1988.
"I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin."
- Robert Plant, _Atlanta_Journal/Constitution_ Weekend_.
"...and there are certain songs that are really timepieces and
shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good
humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about
the past, I'm a musician with ambition."
- Robert Plant, _MTV_.
"Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I
can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a
bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of
that by just delving into the history."
- Robert Plant, in _The_Music_Paper_ when asked about favourable
crowd reaction to "Hurting Kind" and his solo songs.
"No, no, no, no, it has nothing to do with paying tribute. I'm the
guy who wrote the lyrics, and I'm just sending myself up. ... I
just do it for a bit of a laugh."
- Robert Plant, _Sounds_, onusing Zeppelin material in 1990.
"I've never actually seen a tribute band. I can't really get a hold
of the concept. To me, it's old material. I have no interest in
it. I want to see what's coming now."
- John Paul Jones, in the _Chicago-Sun_Times_, on tribute bands, on
October 16, 1994.
"All these bands that are trying to sound like Zeppelin never really
get it right, it's all this boom and bash sort of thing. But if you
listen to Bonzo he's got all this little stuff going on."
- John Paul Jones, on _MTV_'s Rockumentary.
"They steal your music and shout at you."
- Jimmy Page, on rap, and people like the Beastie Boys.
"But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I
heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy
any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin."
- Jimmy Page, New York Post, 6/7/88.
"You're saying there's this one and that one of Led Zeppelin tribute
bands. It gives us all the more reason to do something new; new for
us, anyway. All the more reason to make us give them something to
think about."
- Jimmy Page, in the December 1994 issue of _Vox_.
"Well, 15 to 16 songs, maybe.... We featured 11 songs in the album
and the rest of 4 songs will be released in the form of outtake
singles collection or something."
- David Coverdale, on the possiblity of releasing "Coverdale/Page"
outtakes.
"This is the traffic sign meaning two roads joining to one road. Try
to express unification or joining together."
- David Coverdale on the cover of "Coverdale/Page."
"This lyric is very personal to us. JP lost Bonzo, and I lost T.
Bolin. We wish we could make anybody feel this kind of emotion -
`Take me for a little while, Take me away from these sad thoughts,
sing me songs to make me smile.'"
- David Coverdale on "Take Me For A Little While."
"We made this song during taking vacation at Barbados islands.
Firstly this song was called "Barbados Boogie" as sub-title. This
is the only song that I played harmonica in the album. Rest of
the harmonica was played by the man called John Harris."
- Jimmy Page on "Pride And Joy."
"It's definitely like a Zep album. It's very well done...a pleasant
surprise!"
- George Marino of Sterling Sound on the then upcoming
"Coverdale/Page" album.
"Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied,
`With both hands, of course...'"
- David Coverdale, _Guitar_World_, May, 1993.
"Maybe someone should just tell Robert to keep his mouth shut."
- Jimmy Page, angry about Plant's frequent comments him and Zeppelin
during the "Outrider" tour.
"If Page is happy doing what he does, let him do it."
- Robert Plant, on Boston's WBCN, on the Coverdale/Page project.
"It was only a joke." (Plant)
"I didn't take it seriously, so why should anybody else?" (Page)
- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, in _The_Toronto_Star_, on their war
of words over the "Coverdale/Page" project.
"I don't know the guy anymore."
- Robert Plant, on Jimmy Page, in _Guitar_World_,
December 1993, page 47.
"Robert took a lot of swipes at me as well. When I came to the U.S.
to do publicity for the "Outrider" album, all I heard was `Robert
said this,' and `Robert said that.' It was really bothersome."
- Jimmy Page, _Guitar_World_, May 1993.
"He's done his best. It's a bit limiting artisitically, to think
that's the way it is and that's what's needed."
- Robert Plant, on Page and Coverdale/Page, in the December 1993
issue of _Guitar_World_.
"There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John
Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia
band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and
somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think
we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now."
- Jimmy Page, to Cameron Crowe, 1974.
"It'd be like touring with the ex-wife."
- Robert Plant on the possiblity of a Zeppelin reunion in 1993.
"I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably."
- Robert Plant, on a Zeppelin reunion.
"Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?"
- Robert Plant, on a Zeppelin reunion.
"The thought of rehashing it endlessly is nauseating."
- John Paul Jones.
"It was like being immersed in ether, really..."
- Robert Plant, on the 1990 Knebworth performance with Page.
"I feel stupid."
- Robert Plant, when asked in _The_Music_Paper_ how he felt about
the reunions he had done to that point.
"Y'see, why would I want to go back to a band with three boring old
bigots in it when I'm having so much fun with this lot? ... I've
had hits of my own and haven't used that old band to go after an
audience."
- Robert Plant.
"...Robert certainly wasn't doing anything...and there was a great
feeling in the camp that we would probably be getting back together
again in some shape or form--some capacity--whether it be a tour or
what. But, I mean, as you can tell at this point it just didn't
happen...[softly] it just didn't happen, so.... I think it's pretty
safe to assume that if it didn't happen then... then...you know,
it's...well, it's pretty dim any...any chance of it happening in the
future. Everyone...I mean, as far as Jonesey and I were concerned,
we were really keen to see it begin...get something going. But, you
know, Robert just wasn't...[softly] wasn't interested. Well, at the
time... I mean, I'll leave this for everybody's speculation: that he
thought it would harm his solo career. That's...that's what he
said, which is rather peculiar, but...but that's his reason."
- Jimmy Page on the abortive 1986 reunion.
"I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the
Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and
emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real
about this."
- Robert Plant, on a Zeppelin reunion.
"I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged
men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's
inappropriate."
- Robert Plant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16/09/93.
"I mean, what the hell is the point of going to prison? Why go to
jail and go around the world singing Black Dog?"
- Robert Plant, Guitar World.
"[Knebworth] was really like being immersed in ether, really. The
whole thing was like a celebration of stagnation."
- Robert Plant, San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner.
"I get emotionally blackmailed into these situations. But being with
Jimmy at Knebworth was great because it was with me and my band."
- Robert Plant, The Music Paper.
"I'd just like to rehearse until I was really good with Page and then
do one very quick blast through. But it would have to be some
incredibly good music. And that's what I'd need to be able to go
out and call it Page and Plant. That's how it would have to be, the
real new Zeppelin. And the possibility of that is years away - if
at all."
- Robert Plant, in _Rolling_Stone_, 24/3/88.
"Well, you'll have to ask Robert. It's true, isn't it. I mean, I
love playing that stuff, it's part of me... a great big part of me
and I love playing it."
- Jimmy Page, backstage at Donington in 1990, when asked by Mick
Wall if Zeppelin would play together again.
"Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but
to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was."
- Jimmy Page, on the Live Aid experience.
"I kept thinking how I'd do this if I was to do it every night
again."
- Robert Plant, on Live Aid.
"I was sitting around for an hour-and-a-half just getting wound up."
- Jimmy Page, on the Atlantic 40th Anniversary Show.
"Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the
lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be
a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in
five years' time."
- Robert Plant, March 1988.
"I'm too old for Led Zeppelin."
- Robert Plant, in an interview on VH-1 relating to "Unledded".
"I get them (the sets). I don't play them all the way through. I
play the songs. I do acknowledge the fact that they had to be
improved, but I am a little skeptical as to whether or not it should
be such a commercial adventure. And I do find Jimmy's constant sort
of commenting about the lack of Led Zeppelin in the major sort of
festival auditoriums in the country a bit boring."
- Robert Plant, on remastering Zeppelin, and Page's desire to work
with him again, in _Guitar_World_, December 1993, page 47.
"'When The Levee Breaks' and 'In My Time Of Dying' have their seeds
in the desolate Delta Blues but are re-created in heroic mould:
with slide guitar riffs pumped up like mighty phalanx of alpenhorns
sounding from the cloudy summit of Valhalla itself, where once was
plaintiveness is power, and what had been still and small has become
crushingly vast."
- from _Q_ magazine's review of "The Complete Studio Recordings"
"Even if they were guaranteed to sell a million of a live thing, I
don't think he'd put it out if he didn't feel that the playing was
good enough."
- George Marino of Sterling Sound on Page's attitude towards
releasing live recordings.
"I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but
there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it."
- Jimmy Page, USA Today, April 2, 1993.
"It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy
and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a
Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is
rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that
carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a
reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the
natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there."
- Robert Plant, on his visit to Morocco with Page for "No Quarter".
"We just went into a courtyard, sat down with them, there was all
this kind of incense and stuff sort of floating around. In fact it
was a bit like Woodstock was way back. And we just started playing
with them and... We had these visions ya know? It was remarkable
actually, it was really good, it didn't take very long at all."
- Robert Plant, on _Denton_, when asked what it was like working
with the Gnaoua.
"We slowed it down to like a kind of 30's blues approach which really
fitted the location... I mean that sounds rediculous, playing music
to different environments but it couldn't have been much more
ambient than that... it really worked great."
- Robert Plant, on the version of "Nobody's Fault But Mine" on "No
Quarter".
"Robert Plant looks incredible. He's still got the same lithe body,
the same luscious locks, and a face made out of old chammy
leathers."
- Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio One DJ.
"One slightly naughty thing I was thinking as I was watching the MTV
thing, is how many people it took to replace me, and how few people
it's taken me to replace them."
- John Paul Jones, on "Unledded".
"All the Jeritol has been sold."
- Robert Plant, interviewed on Canadian radio, when asked about
whether there was any pressure from what bands like The Eagles
and Pink Floyd were doing, to make them more of a Zeppelin
project.
"Loads of new songs... nine more. Some are four-piece traditional and
some are 'different'. Four people in a room, turn it up real loud
and feel ill."
- Robert Plant, interviewed on Canadian radio, about some upcoming
original material being released.
"It would be crap."
- Robert Plant, interview on Canadian radio, explaining how he was
not able to rectify what he felt was a below-average vocal on the
original "Kashmir", because he was ill at the time.
"I don't know..." (Plant)
"Hard to say..."" (Page)
"Will have Egyptians and the occasional Indian on tour, but it won't
be as formal as the movie... it will be more organic, looser,
exciting." (Plant)
- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, interviewed on Canadian radio about
the upcoming tour.
"If we keep sharing interviews and Trojans - well yeah!"
- Robert Plant, interviewed on Canadian radio, when asked whether he
and Page have long term plans.
"We're definitely going to tour, and what you will get is pretty much
what your saw on the film. But we haven't got any dates yet."
- Robert Plant, at the Paris press conference at the Cirque D'Hiver,
on the duo's intentions.
"We've got a lot more songs written that aren't on the record. But
just rolling out the barrel and doing the same four-piece thing with
a different drummer seemed obsolete. There didn't seem to be any
point, unless it was just to see if we could do better than the
Stones or something. So we started moving towards the idea of using
musicians from another culture."
- Robert Plant, at the Paris press conference at the Cirque D'Hiver,
hinting that he and Page have long-term plans.
"Bassist John Paul Jones was pointedly not invited to this project." (Scheerer)
"This isn't a reunion. This is us - Jimmy and Robert, you know.
It's not the Blues Brothers." (Plant)
"And wasn't there..." (Scheerer)
"And it's not Spinal Tap. It nearly is though." (Plant)
- Robert Plant, responding to CNN's Max Scheerer during an interview
he did with Page on "Showbiz Today".
"He's parking the car."
- Robert Plant, at the Paris Press Conference, when asked about the
absence of John Paul Jones from the project.
"As it happens, I probably would have said no (to Plant and Page) if
they said they were going to do all the old songs. I'm not really
interested in doing old material. I'm a big Zeppelin fan myself,
and I'm very proud of that body of work. But it's time to move on,
really."
- John Paul Jones, in _The_Chicago_Sun-Times_.
"Once we got started we were a two-piece. We were a guitarist and a
singer who`d written loads of songs already, so we knew very quickly
if we didn't like what we were doing. But if you bring in a third
imagination it can take longer to reach the same point, and it can
be uncomfortable. I much prefer being in the middle of than than
churning it out in a four-piece."
- Robert Plant, in _The_Independent_, on October 21, 1994, regarding
a Led Zeppelin reunion.
"We aim to prove that middle aged musicians actually can get together
again without sounding like Phil Collins, or some obscure coffee
table music."
- Robert Plant, on what he and Jimmy Page expect from their world
tour next year.
"We've arranged a start date, in February. We will go on tour. It
will be what you saw on film - let's see what comes along."
- Robert Plant, at the Paris Press Conference on the upcoming tour.
"It's the first time we've heard it with an audience apart from when
we originally did it, so it's been quite an emotional experience for
us, just hearing it."
- Jimmy Page, at the Paris Press Conference, on the Paris screening
of "Unledded".
"Because we ain't Led Zeppelin!" (Page)
"We're Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. And we haven't got Bonzo, and
Bonzo hasn't been around for a long time."(Plant)
- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page when asked by Peter Howell of _The_
_Toronto_Star_ why John Paul Jones was not included.
"Well, he's wrong. Think about it. Two people who have written so
many songs, and all we've got to do is see whether we can do it
again. If you bring in the kitchen sink, you have all the same
old road crew back, all the same women, the same airline pilot..."
(Plant)
"And all the same grievances!" (Page)
- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in _The_Toronto_Star_ when asked about
Jones's comments about not being included.
"We just couldn't find enough Berbers."
- Robert Plant, in the December 1994 issue of _Musician_.
"You must be aware, on Real World there's a CD called Passion
Sources - not the Peter Gabriel thing, but the one where there's
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and all that. I think track nine is a Berber
wedding track. And if you listen to the drum intro on that, and
that whole thing, that's where we're going next. Into that vibe,
I think."
- Robert Plant, in the December 1994 issue of _Musician_.
"Well, I don't use gear. I gave it up. The doctor told me it was
bad for me."
- Robert Plant, in the December 1994 issue of _Musician_.
"They were there and it was sort of `No Quarter' on the guitar and
lots of people playing my parts, I suppose. It's spooky in a way."
- John Paul Jones, in the January 1995 edition of Australian
_Rolling_Stone_.
"Every November, the people we played with - Ibrahim and his mates -
go to people's houses and clear them of the jinn - everything that's
bad in the place. But Ibrahim also makes tapes that you can buy for
15 dirhams in the market. So that's quite a useful gig he's got.
It's a bit like Tori Amos. She makes you feel good, and she sells a
few records."
- Robert Plant, in _The_New_York_Times_, 30/10/94, on the Gnawa
musicians he performed with for "Unledded".
"I hate their bland line of pop that has nothing to do with the
heart. The two are like valium."
- Robert Plant, on Phil Collins and George Michael. From an
interview with the Spanish press.
"Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No
conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make
music and that's that, it doesn't matter why."
- Robert Plant, dismissing Phil Collins' outrageous claim that Eric
Clapton could never be a great blues guitarist because of his
accumulated money and fame. From an interview with the Spanish
press.
"Stiff? They were virtually embalmed"
- Robert Plant, describing the performance of the Velvets at the
1993 Glastonbury Festival.
"Uh, what? I don't get out much..."
- Robert Plant, in response to the question "So what do you think of
the whole Waco thing?" from a DJ on WBCN during an interview.
"No, no. I'd like to think that I was, but like every reluctant hero
I sold my rights years ago, mate. [chuckles] Uh, yes. It's quite
flattering to see that and try not to be stunned by it, really..."
- Robert Plant, when asked about album royalties in a BBC interview.
"Jimmy has the Knebworth footage."
- Peter Grant.
"We went to Elvis's hotel room after the show. Usually people got 15
minutes with him - we had two-and-a-hal-hours. The boys were busy
talking to him and I went to sit on this settee. All of a sudden I
heard this voice behind me saying: `Jesus Christ." It was Elvis's
dad Vernon, I'd sat on him."
- Peter Grant, in the December 1994 issue of _Vox_.
"I was in Chicago with Robert once. We were in his hotel room and
these girls came and banged on the door, all ready for the third-leg
boogie, and we're sitting there playing Monopoly."
- B.P. Fallon, former Zeppelin publicist, in the December 1994 issue
of _Vox_.
"If it worked, every record would have the backward message 'BUY THIS
RECORD' in it!"
- Robert Plant on backmasking.
"My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on
`Reelin' In The Years'."
- Jimmy Page.
"We did nothing for a year and a half. I tinkered on the village
piano and grew so obese drinking beer that nobody knew who I was."
- Robert Plant, _People_, 27/8/79.
"I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating.
Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the
blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour
I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so
that my hotel rooms look like mosques."
- Jimmy Page, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view
of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then
every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you
know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the
same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can
be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not
to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about
consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time
warps."
- Jimmy Page, _Sounds_ 13/3/76.
"...There's a man towards the south (of Morocco), in fact a holy man,
but he'll invite you (for) mint tea, and while he's standing there,
mint grows up around his toes and feet and he picks it, makes tea
and a small animal eats the stalks and it's all gone. I haven't
seen that, no, but the person who hand and told me had no reason to
lie. I've witnessed other things which I don't care to discuss. I
think if a person's into it, they're the kind of things he'll
experience himself rather than having it related to him."
- Jimmy Page, _Sounds_, 13/3/76.
"Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in
ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once
told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing -
one that couldn't fly away.'"
- Jimmy Page, _People_, 10/2/75.
"I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly.
I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of
heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the
country."
- Jimmy Page, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
"One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie"
- J.R.R. Tolkien.
"There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what
I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be
incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the
damnation of its own impotence."
- Maxim Gorky, "Foma Gordeyev".
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