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You Can't Buy Time. Everything, For Me, Seems To Be A Race Against Time. Especially Musically.

Every Musician Wants To Do Something Which Will Hold Up For A Long Time, And I Guess We Did It With 'stairway To Heaven.'

I Deal In Emotions. It's The Harmonic Side That's Important. That's The Side I Expected To Be Much Further Along On Than I Am Now. That Just Means To Say That I've Got To Keep At It.

We Were Never A Band That Did 96 Takes Of The Same Thing. I Had Heard Of Groups That Were Into That Kind Of Excess Around That Time. They'd Work On The Same Track For Three Or Four Days And Then Work On It Some More, But That's Clearly Not The Way To Record An Album. If The Track Isn't Happening And It Creates Some Sort Of Psychological Barrier, Even After An Hour Or Two, Then You Should Stop And Do Something Else. Go Out: Go To The Pub, Or A Restaurant Or Something. Or Play Another Song.

Led Zeppelin Didn't Get That Kind Of Beatles Screaming. We Had A More Sort Of Macho Crowd. But I Remember Once In The Early Days Of The Yardbirds, We Were Playing On An Ice Rink, And The Stage Was Mobbed By Screaming Girls. I Had My Clothes Torn Off Me. That's A Really Uncomfortable Experience, Let Me Tell You.