"It's just a cord or a riff that inspires me and then I go on and see how it goes colour-wise. The whole thing just grows like an acorn or something. I'm not a natural musician, I really have to practice damned hard to get anything out. I don't know what it is, when you hear something---a musical work---and something appeals to you in it, you say, 'Well, I really like that', but what is it? It's a certain magic thing about it. That's what I'm trying for in a musical way---to produce something that will reduce someone to tears or make them very happy."-----Jimmy Page, 1970

"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. If you play technically you sound like everyone else; it's originality that counts. I yell out like a bear when I'm playing to give my playing a boost. I like it to be like a thunderstorm. My ambition is to record the '1812' overture. I would overdub all the rhythm sections, the bells, cannons, and timps....We've all got ideas and things we want to do....I don't do much writing myself, but I appreciate what they write and I can enjoy playing it. I'm not governed by them in what I play. They ask me how a drum thing should be played, and that's the way we all work."-----John Bonham, 1971

"The key to Led Zeppelin was that nothing was ever out of the question. Ideas would be rejected or changed, but no one would ever say, 'That's too wild for us.' The greatness of Zeppelin was that we managed to maintain our following while never maintaining a predictabe sound. We lived to experiment....Led Zeppelin was always great fun. That's what people always seem to forget. They have made us some monolithic force that was filled with somber music and bigger-than-life personalities. But for all of us, the key to our success and survival was our sense of humor."-----John Paul Jones, 1986