Quotes About John Bonham

#1. There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

Jimmy Page

#2. I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.

Joan Jett

#3. John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

Tommy Lee

#4. Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

#7. My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started ... I was fine.

John Bonham

#8. Gloomily. He was sad because his new friend was so bloodthirsty. Yes,

E.B. White

#9. 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.

John Bonham

#10. Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned

Gail Carson Levine

#11. 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.

John Bonham

#12. 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.

John Bonham

#13. 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.

John Bonham

#14. I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

John Bonham

#15. I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

John Bonham

#16. What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Lake Bell

#17. Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

John Bonham

#18. Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

John Bonham

#19. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.

Oscar Wilde

#20. I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,

John Bonham

#21. 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.

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

#24. Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

Mark Nepo

#25. 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.

John Bonham

#26. Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

#27. 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.

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

#29. I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Jody Williams

#30. 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.

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

#32. 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.

John Bonham

#33. I think the marketing needs work.

John Bonham

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

John Bonham

#35. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.

G.K. Chesterton

#36. 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.

John Bonham