Robert Plant Quotes

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

- Robert Plant

Always, Americana, Terms, No Boundaries

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

- Robert Plant

Singer, Two-Dimensional, Gig

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

Always, Away, Sure, Collection

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

- Robert Plant

Through, Pretty, Historian, Amateur

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

- Robert Plant

Love, Beauty, Some, Rock-And-Roll

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

- Robert Plant

Achievement, Kind, Crucial, Drifting

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

Idea, Could, Imagine, Hum

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

Before, Around, Comprehend, On And Off

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

Think, Some, Been, Clothing

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

Comfort, Been, Liked, Comfort Zone

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

Always, Over, Been, Transient

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

Voice, Fact, Line, Chances

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

Turn, Some, Another, Duration

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

- Robert Plant

Past, Stepping Stone, Stone

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

- Robert Plant

Men, Better, Old, Old Men

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

About, By The Time, Led, Led Zeppelin

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

Generation, Through, Been, Led Zeppelin

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

- Robert Plant

Over, Idea, Very, Musics

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

- Robert Plant

Similarity, African, North, Musics

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

- Robert Plant

Love, Beautiful, Think, Bearable

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

Die, Music Scene, Hundred, Hundred Years

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

Entertainment, Very, Based, Structured

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

- Robert Plant

Eyes, Voice, Having, Possibility

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

Harmony, Desire, Essence, Lyrics

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

Through, Around, Riff, Lyrics

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

- Robert Plant

Voice, Wanted, Tenor, Sax

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

- Robert Plant

Think, Same, I Think, Sheep

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

- Robert Plant

Fact, Nothing, Old, Jaded

I think I'm prone to panic.

- Robert Plant

Think, Panic, I Think, Prone

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

More, Another, Almost, Lately

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

- Robert Plant

Music, Soul, Kid, Soul Music

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

- Robert Plant

Kind, Exaggeration, Based, Key

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

Song, Rest, My Life, Every Night

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

My Life, Need, Like, Being Alone

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

More, About, Bodies, Pompous

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

Kid, Touched, Delta, Thirties

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

- Robert Plant

Think, Aged, Gracefully

My dad played fiddle as well.

- Robert Plant

Well, Played, Dad, Fiddle

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

- Robert Plant

Golden, Repeat, Going, No Point

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

- Robert Plant

Questions, You, Ask, Pays

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

- Robert Plant

Thought, Think, Never, Gay

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

Year, Distant, Stadiums, Front

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

Big, Own, Magnificent, Occasionally

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

- Robert Plant

Learn, Think, Musical, Intervals

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

Love, Lucky, Very, Close

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

- Robert Plant

Now, Hanging

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

- Robert Plant

Great Time, About, Had, Goldfish

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

- Robert Plant

Old, Making, Volume, Dynamism

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

Kind, Been, Springboard, Events

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

- Robert Plant

Help, Need, Going, Crossing

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

- Robert Plant

Satisfaction, Week, Concert, Justifies

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

- Robert Plant

Daily, About, Would, Blog

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

Think, Been, I Think, Heaven

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

- Robert Plant

Big, Always, Wanted, Band

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

Vocal, Became, Developed, Whine

I've still got a twinkle in me.

- Robert Plant

Me, Got, Still, Twinkle

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

- Robert Plant

True, Only, Spend, Millionaire

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

- Robert Plant

Work, Musicians, Everything, Owe

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

- Robert Plant

Remember, Communicate, Ideal, Laughter

Does anyone remember laughter?

- Robert Plant

Remember, Does, Anyone, Laughter

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

- Robert Plant

Stopped, Period, Having, Acceptance

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

- Robert Plant

New, Nothing, Get, Nothing New

I'm a grandfather now.

- Robert Plant

Now, Grandfather

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

- Robert Plant

Rock And Roll, Singer, More, Much

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

Achievement, Night, People, Bands

I hate cliche.

- Robert Plant

Hate, Cliche

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

- Robert Plant

Change, Try, Whatever, Landscape

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

- Robert Plant

Rock, Necessarily

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

- Robert Plant

Anything, Like, Whatever

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

- Robert Plant

Culture, White, Had, English

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

- Robert Plant

Music, Single, Walks, Every

I hate wasting time.

- Robert Plant

Time, Hate, Wasting, Wasting Time

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

- Robert Plant

Know, Belong, Where, British

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

- Robert Plant

Entertainment, Built, Were, Boards

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

- Robert Plant

Love, Good, People, Just Because

I think I surprise myself.

- Robert Plant

Myself, Think, I Think, Surprise

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

- Robert Plant

Away, Like, Still, Carried

Alone I'm nothing.

- Robert Plant

Nothing, Alone

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