John Bonham quotes
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“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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“There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.”
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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.”
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“People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.”
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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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“I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,”
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“I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.”
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“Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.”
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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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“Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse”
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“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.”
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“My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.”
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“Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.”
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“I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.”
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“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”
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“I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.”
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“I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.”
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“Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.”
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“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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