Jason Bonham Quotes

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

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

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

The music I do and the fans I attract? I got crazy fans.

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.