If people want to find things, they find them themselves.
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.
I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.
The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.
The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.
I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.
I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That's a guitar hero for me.
You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.
We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn't have to continue a formula or produce a certain number of singles. Because, in those days, radio was still playing albums. That was really good.
Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.
From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
