“Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.”
― Robert Plant
“Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.”
― Robert Plant
“The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”
― Robert Plant
“I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.”
― Robert Plant
“Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”
― Robert Plant
“Does anyone remember laughter?”
― Robert Plant
“I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.”
― Robert Plant
“I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn’t want to go on!”
― Robert Plant
“I’ve still got a twinkle in me.”
― Robert Plant
“You can’t even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.”
― Robert Plant
“There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.”
― Robert Plant
“All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it’s a very healthy thing.”
― Robert Plant
“It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.”
― Robert Plant
“I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.”
― Robert Plant
“Since I was a kid, I’ve had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but I’d never really touched on dark Americana.”
― Robert Plant
“My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.”
― Robert Plant
“You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?”
― Robert Plant
“You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”
― Robert Plant
“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.”
― Robert Plant
“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”
― Robert Plant
“I’m so aware of the fact that if I hadn’t taken the chances that I’ve taken along the line, I probably wouldn’t be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.”
― Robert Plant
“There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.”
― Robert Plant
“You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.”
― Robert Plant
“Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.”
― Robert Plant
“I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.”
― Robert Plant
“The trouble is now, with rock’n’roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.”
― Robert Plant
“There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.”
― Robert Plant
“I think we’re in a disposable world and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is one of the things that hasn’t quite been thrown away yet.”
― Robert Plant
“I know that bands that haven’t put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that’s not the achievement.”
― Robert Plant
“I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.”
― Robert Plant
“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.”
― Robert Plant
“I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?”
― Robert Plant
“There have been people I’ve warmed to over the years but, as the situation I’m in is so fleeting and transient, I’ve always known it’s going to be over kind of real quick.”
― Robert Plant
“There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.”
― Robert Plant
“I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.”
― Robert Plant
“I hate wasting time.”
― Robert Plant
“I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.”
― Robert Plant
“No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.”
― Robert Plant
“I still like to get carried away – but passively.”
― Robert Plant
“So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.”
― Robert Plant
“I don’t want to scream ‘Immigrant Song’ every night for the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I could.”
― Robert Plant
“I think I surprise myself.”
― Robert Plant
“Alone I’m nothing.”
― Robert Plant
“The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.”
― Robert Plant
“Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.”
― Robert Plant
“People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.”
― Robert Plant
“You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.”
― Robert Plant
“We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?”
― Robert Plant
“I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.”
― Robert Plant
“To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.”
― Robert Plant
“Entertainment isn’t just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it’s great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.”
― Robert Plant
“I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.”
― Robert Plant
“I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.”
― Robert Plant
“I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.”
― Robert Plant
“You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.”
― Robert Plant
“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.”
― Robert Plant
“People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That’s the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There’s plenty of air around you.”
― Robert Plant
“The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do, they gave me the springboard.”
― Robert Plant
“It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.”
― Robert Plant
“I’m just lucky because my kids are grown-up – I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don’t need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.”
― Robert Plant
“I hate cliche.”
― Robert Plant
“I owe everything to the musicians I work with.”
― Robert Plant
“My dad played fiddle as well.”
― Robert Plant
“When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.”
― Robert Plant
“There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.”
― Robert Plant
“I think I’m prone to panic.”
― Robert Plant
“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. It’s an obsessive character trait that’s getting worse. I don’t switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something’s going wrong.”
― Robert Plant
“It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.”
― Robert Plant
“Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.”
― Robert Plant
“When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.”
― Robert Plant
“So many white kids, English kids – we had no culture.”
― Robert Plant
“I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.”
― Robert Plant
“A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.”
― Robert Plant
“If I didn’t do what I do, I wouldn’t be as young as I am.”
― Robert Plant
“I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”
― Robert Plant
“It’s a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.”
― Robert Plant
“I’ve got the big name, but I’ve always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.”
― Robert Plant
“Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.”
― Robert Plant
“I’m a grandfather now.”
― Robert Plant
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