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Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 04.07.2006, 13:42Zitate von Robert
Awakening
At thirteen-and-a-half I liked girls all of a sudden, and it came down to attracting them the best way I could, so I grew my hair... Although I was young really, I suddenly knew where I was going.
I was the guy who couldn't grow a beard, who used to play a harmonica and sing old Muddy Waters stuff.
Sex Symbol
It seems funny that a few months ago I was an ungratified singer, and now they're calling me the next sex symbol. I must admit that I don't really know how people think about sex symbols. Maybe if the audience can see a cock through a pair of trousers, then that must make you a sex symbol. Really you can't take it seriously, simply because you read all these things about it in the papers. You just get into your music, and the sexual thing isn't really apparent to you. It's simply not what we're there for.
I'm not even really sure what it is that I've got to do, but I'm doing it. I guess that it is magic in a way, and I'm just as glad that I possess it -- possibly it was rough and raw, but it was always there. I'd always give everything I have to give.
We'd been playing Madison Square Garden for five nights. I said to Bonzo, "F*cking hell, my voice is gone." And he said, "Nobody cares about that. Just go out and look good."
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Pain
It's only broken love, a bit of emotional debris. A lot of happiness too. It's all in a day's work.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Marriage :!:
I think marriage for me was the make or break of being a stable person, or just going on with this out-and-out looning. In the pop world where everything gets blown up and unreal, you never know what's going to happen. I don't often admit it, but being married is part of the peace of mind and stability thing I hope I've found. [1970s]
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 05.07.2006, 13:02
Himself
You know, there's nothing particularly profound about me, and I don't think there ever -- sounds a bit lame, but -- I don't think there ever has been. I just love to sing. It's simple. Most people love to do one thing. Well, I'm lucky because I love... to do one or two things. I don't really -- should not really -- attract a great deal of interest for anything except for what is on vinyl.
My life would be not half so generous and broad and charming if I didn't sing.
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious.
Look where I've taken myself -- on all these kind of torturous journeys. For what reason, I don't know. I know what's been going on, but I haven't actually written the script. I only read it afterwards.
I spend so much time trying to perfect lyrics that I'd really like to have a book beautifully bound of my really beautiful words. I consider that far more important than breaking the continuity to rush down and do the odd interview. I just know there's so many twists and turns to everyone's life... if you keep a diary or express yourself in any way and refer to it. Really, writing songs kind of tells you how you were at the time, at least how you were projecting yourself at various points in time.
Celebrity
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true -- I only spend millions.
Solitude
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
There's no point in doing anything unless you enjoy it.
Wales
It gives me room to think and breathe and live. I was pretty fed up with humanity in the big cities. The atmosphere is just so easy-going. I just revel in these country things. I'm really intrigued by the mixture of romance and reality.
Magic of the '60s
I think there was a great optimism. It was like a light at the end of a tunnel. I think there still is, really. On a good day. So if that be the crime, then I stand guilty.
When I was a kid, it was so boring, you see. The bohemian movement, the beatniks, poetry and jazz... the whole subculture was very, very... not only challenging, but it was offering me a bit of light. There was a little intellect there and a lot of pretty women and a lot of alternatives to what I had to put up with.
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.
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 05.07.2006, 19:40
Interessant. :)
Aber warum ist hinter "marriage" ein :!: ???
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 06.07.2006, 09:21
Das "!" stammte nicht von mir, Julia.
Das war schon in dem Text enthalten. Keine Ahnung, warum der (die) Verfasser(in?) das dort hingemacht hat!?
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 06.07.2006, 13:15
Writings, Songs
Heart in Your Hand
It's a bit of a mood piece. It's sheer bluff because there are no lyrics. The lyrics aren't even finished now and it's on the record. There's a bit of mumbling at times when I couldn't get a line.
Kashmir
The whole inspiration came from the fact that [in southern Morocco] the road went on and on and on. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams... It's one of my favorites. It was so positive, lyrically.
Ship of Fools
John Donne said many years ago, No man is an island unto himself. We are all part of mankind.
Stairway to Heaven
This is a song of hope...
It's the beginning of spring, it's when the birds make their nests, when hope and the new year begins. It's about a woman getting everything she wants all the time without giving anything back.
It's saying that if you hold tight, you can make it all right. Whatever it is, it's saying a different thing to every other person. It's also incredibly English. It sounds almost medieval. At times it sounds like, you know, you want to have swirling mists.
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold is probably my cynical swipe at the woman I was with at the time. Isn't that terrible? And she's buying a stairway to heaven because she can have anything, who knows? But when she gets there, she knows.
Ten Years Gone
I was working my a** off before joining Zeppelin. A lady I really dearly loved said, It's me or your fans. Not that I had fans. But I said, I can't stop. I've got to keep going.
The Song Remains the Same
Everytime I sing the song, I picture the fact that I've been round and round the world, and at the root of it all there's a common denominator for everybody. I'm proud of the lyricis... somebody pushed the pen for me, I think.
Whole Lotta Love
It's something that I personally need, something I just have to have. We bottle it all up, and when we go onstage we can let it all pour out. The song is very good for us. I suppose in a way it's become a Zeppelin cliché, but it's also a vehicle to other things... to give people the chance of hearing things that we reckon are worth hearing.
Profession
Fame
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! And I started getting this little light glowing inside, and I began wiggling me hips and realizing that it was all a fantastic trip.
Well, it's all a state of mind. I mean, we were making the break every time we made a record. We would try to put behind us the obvious success and comfort of Led Zeppelin and go in and do another Led Zeppelin.
Every now and then I just have to go out and do this extraordinary thing... In fact, I've got a permanent grin on my face mostly all the time when we're touring. I realized that above everything else... above record companies... above films... we were LED ZEPPELIN. [1975]
Hysteria
Well... One thing about us that does upset me -- I see a lot of craziness around us. Somehow, we generate it and we revile it. This is an aspect since I've been away from it which makes me contemplate whether we are doing more harm than we are good. That's very important to me... What I mean is, what we are trying to put across is positive and wholesome, the essence of a survival band, and almost a symbol of the phoenix, if you will; and people react in such an excitable manner that they miss the meaning of it, and that makes me lose my calm, and I get angry.
Power
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. It's not the power, revolution, put your fists in the air. As long as there's a face looking up at me in the middle of that ocean that knows what I'm doing, it could never be boring.
Mystery is not about darkness. It's about intrigue. There's a fine line in between, of course. Not even a fine line... it's a gossamer thread. How on earth do you want to purport yourself? I believed that it had to be Light. Lyrically, you have to stand by your words! I wanted whatever I was saying to represent what I was doing.
The thing is, I look into so many eyes every night, and when I initially look, those eyes are sort of sealed 'cause they don't think I'm real, but bit by bit, I work on just those pairs of eyes until they glow with warmth, and then it makes it worthwhile.
Violence
I believe that America makes you aware of the proximity of man's fate. You see so much that is great, but so much that is terrible. The rush, the hassles, the police, you know... people may say we make a lot of bread, but in some cities it's so rough that people are scared to come to our concerts. The police even accused us of being drug addicts. That's all part of where That's the Way came from.
Interviews
I've been doing this a little too long. I don't know whether or not it compromises my idea of being a musical free spirit. The song does remain the same in some respect. I just remember the glorious days when what happened happened whether you publicized it or talked about it -- contemplated your navel on the air. It didn't really make any difference. There's not that much to talk about.
Live Aid
We were awful. The whole Led Zeppelin saga returned to me instantly on that stage, what I hated about Led Zeppelin came right back. It was like some kind of aimless dog trying to bite its tail.
Comraderie among Bands
Yeah, but you know, I don't know. There would be all that kind of shoulders moving back and forth and that kind of rivalry and that kind of idea. The bonhomie was something that would be invoked occasionally, but the competitive spirit was pretty hot.
Pleasure, Creativity
Vocals
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
I think really that by Houses of the Holy I had learned to sing the way I wanted to hear myself.
I don't try to sing like anything, really... I don't particularly go, Right, I have a technique and I must keep it.
Falsetto: No, it doesn't seem so. It depends what day it is as to how well I sing, or where I sing, or how far it goes. I don't purposely try to sing high, it's just that it's best to choose a key where you have to work to sing, rather than a key where it's just too easy. If you sing high, it comes over better on radio, anyway, and on record. It's good to keep it up a touch, so that the expression in the voice comes over easier. I found this out just getting involved in the recording, seeing exactly where the voice fits in, in the scope of the music.
Lyrics
As a lyricist I'm finding myself now. It's taken a long time, a lot of insecurity and nerves and I'm a failure stuff.
I think the open chord sort of thing... is beautiful. I'm obsessed with that kind of music, particularly when it has really good lyrics... intense lyrics.
There are so many songs within songs... I don't know where they all came from. After all my life in rock 'n roll and all the music I've heard, some imitation hasn't been intentional and some has.
I want to be seduced by a song instead of informed, or instead of that common or garden situation of lick my love pump. That's f*cking sad as hell: the heavy metal idea of the real man. I don't deal in that currency.
It doesn't matter what's out or in. I just can't sing or express my concern about global warming in a 3'40" tune. I much prefer to deal with the area in which I'm unfortunately less at home, and that is my emotional knife-edged lifestyle. I just try to write, sometimes in an obsessive manner...
Morocco
The place, the smells, the colors were all very intoxicating, as was the music. I know it did something to me, to my vocal style. You can hear it in the longer sustained notes, the drops, the quarter tones. You hear that in Friends or In the Light, for instance.
The Blues
The Blues is more elastic. It also encouraged me to be more flexible vocally, even at the risk of losing the melody. I could just sing out.
There was something in [Howlin' Wolf] that was burning. My attraction is to that, in an artist, in a person, in anybody -- I can see them in a crowded room and I can't go away. I won't leave them. Put the light out, and I'll still be there because I love that, whatever it is. And I don't know what it takes or even if it's a good thing... out of that comes absolute genius at times.
It's some kind of real lonesome element which doesn't have to be black. It's this kind of tone, this sound, this plaintive echo from somewhere within, I understand this feeling.
Elvis Presley really opened the door to my whole love of music. I didn't know anything about the references, but it was all there. You ask where it came from- it was him. He was just amazing. He was spectacular.
Religion, Beliefs
Occult
I'm a Leo with something very odd rising. [Jupiter in Sagittarius]
Mystical Music
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
It's like light a candle. I think [the audience] realizes that we give so much, and they want to give it right back... I think if concrete could propel itself, we could all go over the hills and far away right into the land of good times, you know?
My symbol was drawn from sacred symbols of the ancient Mu civilization which existed about 15,000 years ago as part of a lost continent somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Flower Power
I am a golden god.
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?
I believe in the goodness which lies deep in man's spirit. Some day the greatness within man must conquer the beast within man. Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed and all the great prophets have been inspirations throughout the ages because the good within them has been dominant. I believe in peace and love.
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was. [1982]
Communal spirit
There's nothing wrong with just allowing oneself to be vulnerable, to break down some of the social guarding that is everywhere. I find people don't want to commit themselves or leave themselves open to ridicule. Every Thursday we could get rid of that stiffness, in the middle of our climbing the social ladder. [reference to Tie Dye on the Highway]
Satanism
It's all cr*p, that Devil stuff, but the less you said to people the more they'd speculate. We never said f*ck all to anybody.
Backwards masking: I think some people have too much time on their hands. I mean, they'd even play the World Cup backwards.
Survival
Presence was our stand against everything... our stand against the Elements, against Chance. We were literally fighting against Existence itself. We'd left home for twelve months, and it seemed that everything was about to crumble.
I knew I had to pace myself in such a way that I didn't overdo it. Otherwise, I might be back where I started again. I took a very good, close scrutiny of myself and transcended the death vibe, and now I'm here again, and it's mad city again.
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 07.07.2006, 18:41
Ist das viel! :shock:
Ich mag nicht, dass er sagt "I am a golden god". Das finde ich ein bisschen übertrieben. Ein Mensch kann kein Gott sein.
Re: Zitate von Robert
SwingCat - 07.07.2006, 18:59
Das sagt Robert dazu in einem Interview:
Have you seen Almost Famous? Wasn’t “I am a golden god!” one of your lines?
JIMSPENCERGO!, MADISON, NEW JERSEY
Jim, you’re absolutely right: I am the golden god. I proclaimed this with a smile — and I wasn’t standing on the roof of a house; I was at the top of a palm tree on the night of Bonzo’s [John Bonham’s] birthday in 1972. It was an unfortunate moment, because someone drove across the garden in a Cadillac and wedged it between two palm trees. And I was busy making sure everyone knew exactly who and what I was. I wanted to get it in perspective before the party really started. It was the night that George Harrison karate-chopped Bonzo’s birthday cake, and therefore had to be flung into the swimming pool.
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 07.07.2006, 20:10
Ich denke, besser als Robert, kann man es einfach nicht erklären. Seine Erklärung ist auch schon wieder (fast) göttlich ;-) :lol:
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 08.07.2006, 11:05
Ich check irgendwie nix.
Was soll denn Robert da jetzt erklären?? Ich les da nur was, dass er auf ner Palme war usw. Und was hat das mit "golden god" zu tun?
Oder ist das was, was ein "Zep-Anfänger" noch nicht checkt?
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 08.07.2006, 11:55
Manches ist nicht so leicht zu erklären... :roll:
Für mich zeigt Robert durch seine Antwort, wie absurd das damals alles war. Wie absurd er das auch heute selbst empfindet. Es war alles ein Riesen-Spass (meistens). George Harrison zerschlägt Bonzos Torte mit einem Karate-Hieb...daraufhin schmeisst Bonzo George in den Pool...mit samt voller Kleidung und Gattin...und Robert sitzt auf einer Palme, und will jedem klar machen, dass er der goldene Gott ist...das ist doch eine göttliche Kommödie, oder? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 08.07.2006, 13:53
Mir kommt es irgendwie vor, als ob ihr das von früher alles als komisch empfunden habt und eh total verrückt und total blöd und sonstwas. :roll:
Re: Zitate von Robert
SwingCat - 08.07.2006, 14:06
Bis jetzt hat mich gar nix geschockt. Ich finde vieles süss,zum schmunzeln und sehe alles mit einem :wink: Augenzwinkern!
Und denke obendrein noch, das waren alles prima Jungs und super Menschen!
Schade dass nicht alle so sind...!
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 08.07.2006, 14:34
Mich hat bis jetzt auch nichts geschockt.
Und an der Palmen-Geschichte eh nicht. Was soll daran "rockstarmäßig" sein. Ist halt weng verrückt, aber verrückte Sachen machen auch "normale" Menschen. :wink:
Aber man kann auch nicht sagen, dass alles so albern war. Manches halt, aber nich alles. Schließlich haben sie ja nicht nur albern gelebt, wie wäre das denn dann ausgegangen?
Sonst wäre ja die Musik auch albern und alles...
Ich denke, es SIND rpima Jungs, oder Männer! :) Wie wär´s mit prima Menschen. :)
Viele Rockstars sind prima Menschen, alle nicht, aber einige. :wink:
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 08.07.2006, 15:29
Komisch und verrückt...JA. Blöd...NEIN.
Das waren die 60er + 70er Jahre :-) Auch ich könnte viele Anekdoten von mir selbst berichten ;-) Die wären mindestens genauso komisch oder verrückt..aber nicht blöd. Oder OK...einige wenige waren auch blöd ;-)
Re: Zitate von Robert
Freddiebear - 10.07.2006, 15:35
Genauso unblöd finde ich die Geschichte mit Bron Y Aur und Jimmy usw. Ist doch eher cool, wenn man so´n Haus hat und so halt.
Ich hab bestimmt nie Anekdoten zu berichten... :?
Erzähl mal! :lol:
Re: Zitate von Robert
Black Dog - 10.07.2006, 17:52
Nee, besser nicht. Meine Kinder könnten das sonst eines Tages gegen mich verwenden :P
Re: Zitate von Robert
SwingCat - 10.07.2006, 17:59
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :!:
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