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"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
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"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up."

"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night."

"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."

"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."

"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."

"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."

"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."

"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
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"I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained."

"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."

"My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine."

"We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs."

"There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play."

"With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by."

"Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest."

"If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about."

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
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