Nikki Sixx Quotes

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

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin - the past catalog stuff; that's what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.

Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

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.

Led Zeppelin sounded like nobody else. That spoke to the individuality of the band and the direction Jimmy Page wanted to pursue.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

The Beatles will exist without us.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

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

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

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

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