Top 197 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Plant
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Robert Plant.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
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.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
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.
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.
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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.
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.
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.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
Does anyone remember laughter?
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
I hate cliche.
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.
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.
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
I think I'm prone to panic.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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.
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
Alone I'm nothing.
I think I surprise myself.
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?
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.
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.
I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
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!
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
I don't think I've aged gracefully.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
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.
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
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.
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.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
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