Page & Plant Quotes

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
Jimmy Page

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
Jimmy Page

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
Jimmy Page

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
Jimmy Page

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Jimmy Page

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
Jimmy Page 

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
Robert Plant

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious.
Robert Plant

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Robert Plant

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
Robert Plant

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
Robert Plant

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
Robert Plant

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Robert Plant