Jason Bonham Quotes

Here's where it goes with Led Zeppelin. It didn't matter what was going on around us, because the character of Led Zeppelin's music was so strong.

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

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.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

If you listen to our work, from 'Led Zeppelin I' to 'Coda,' it's just a fantastic textbook.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.