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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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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."
"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
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"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."
"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 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."
"Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest."
"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."
"My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine."
"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."
"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."
"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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