quotes about Zeppelins
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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
-- Angus YoungSource : "Angus Young of AC/DC Opens Up in His First Guitar World Interview from 1984". Interview with Steven Rosen, www.guitarworld.com. August 23, 2011.
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Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
-- Ann Wilson -
I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
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Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.
-- Eric Carr -
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.
-- Freddie Mercury -
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.
-- Jack White -
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
-- James Buchan -
Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.
-- Jeff BuckleySource : "Jeff Buckley – Grace Electronic Press Kit". Documentary, 1994.
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Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
-- Jimmy Page -
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I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.
-- John VarvatosSource : "Hot Tracks: John Varvatos". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. October 2013.
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
-- Jon Fishman -
Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
-- Jon Fishman -
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
-- Karen O -
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Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
-- L.A. Reid -
Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.
-- Mark SallingSource : "Mark Salling Has A 'Type' (And Her Name is Santana)". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.clevver.com. October 13, 2010.
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Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.
-- Mark Slaughter -
I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
-- Nicolas Cage -
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.
-- Peter Medawar -
I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.
-- Rachel TrachtenburgSource : The New Yorker, September 09, 2002.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
-- Rachel Zoe -
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.
-- Rick RubinSource : Interview with Anthony Kiedis, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.
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Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.
-- Robert Plant -
I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.
-- Robert Plant -
Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
-- Serj Tankian -
I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
-- Steve Vai -
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Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.
-- Wayne Campbell -
I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.
-- Peter Webber -
A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.
-- Phil Collen -
Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.
-- Phil Collen -
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I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
-- Ronnie Hawkins