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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 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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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."
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"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met."
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"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
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"We once did six tours of America in 15 months."
America

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

"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."
Money

"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."
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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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"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."
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"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."
Home

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