Quotes and Lyrics by Led Zeppelin

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one, and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter

There's a feeling I get when I look to the West
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking

We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

Oh, the sea was red, and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today

Made up my mind to make a new start
Going to California with an aching in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

And so today, my world, it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles
And thanks to you it will be done
For you to me are the only one

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
When mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me

Ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now
To sing my song, I'm going 'round the world, I gotta find my girl
On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day
Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my dreams

The leaves are falling all around, time I was on my way
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay
But now it's time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way
For now I smell the rain, and with it pain, and it's headed my way

The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new land
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming

Stairway to Heaven is a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. Kashmir is.

I don't think I had any idea the group would achieve so much.

I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.

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

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

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

When Mom was a groupie in the '70s, her scrambled eggs made her the darling of the MSG loading dock. Lot of songs written about those scrambled eggs:
ZZ Top's "She's Got Legs"? Originally "She's Got Eggs".
Led Zeppelin? "Scramble On".
Steve Miller? "The Yolker".
If you listen to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" while eating her eggs, it lines up perfectly.

I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like The Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

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

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

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

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

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.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

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

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can!

When I first joined the group, I didn't know Jimmy, and I felt a bit shy. He was the big star, and had been around for ages with The Yardbirds.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can!

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

Whoa, and the '70s are back. All we need are the Bee Gees and bell-bottoms and it's Studio 54.

Jax: "People actually wore this crap?"
Stein: "People smoked a lot of pot in the '70s. It clearly had a deleterious effect on the fashion of the era."

Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if you go away
I know you could never stay

God bless Queen Elizabeth II.
May she rest in peace.
Long live The King.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Iceland - and that's practically the same thing.

There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the Vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.