John Bonham Quotes & Sayings

#1. My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

#2. Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall ... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

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#3. Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

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#4. I think the marketing needs work.

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#5. There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

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#6. People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

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#7. I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.

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#8. Nowadays you can't be loud enough!

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#9. There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

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#10. I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

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

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#12. Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

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#13. We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

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#14. We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

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#15. I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

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#16. With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

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#17. If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.

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#18. I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

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