Top 100 Robert Plant Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

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#3. No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.

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#4. It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

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#5. Alone I'm nothing.

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#6. I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

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#7. My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.

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#8. The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

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

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#10. Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

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#11. I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

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#12. My dad played fiddle as well.

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

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

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#15. Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

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#16. I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

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#17. I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.

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#18. I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

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#19. I don't think I've aged gracefully.

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#20. I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.

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#21. I'd like to write a big rock anthem again.
I just need to listen to Korn, and then
I might get the idea of how to do it.

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#22. I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

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#23. I listen to the crowds [laughs] ... I like Blind Melon very much.

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#24. Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

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

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#26. You know sometimes words have two meanings.

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#27. Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

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#28. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

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#29. I hate wasting time.

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#30. I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.

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#31. Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

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#32. I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

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#33. There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

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#34. [Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.

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#35. I want to play tennis and fornicate.

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

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

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

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#39. 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.

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#40. The music beckons to those who are listening.

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

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

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#43. 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.

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

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

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#46. What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

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#47. Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

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

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#49. Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

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#50. When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.

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#51. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

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#52. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

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#53. The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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#54. Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.

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#55. I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

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

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#57. I'm pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I'm not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.

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#58. I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

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

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#60. I think I'm prone to panic.

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#61. Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

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#62. Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

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#63. 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.

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#64. To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

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#65. I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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#66. 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.

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#67. The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

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

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#69. Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

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#70. 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.

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#71. 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.

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#72. I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

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#73. The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

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#74. I still like to get carried away - but passively.

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

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

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

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#78. I'm a grandfather now.

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

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

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

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#82. Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

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#83. 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.

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#84. 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.

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#85. I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!

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#86. I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

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#87. My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. Little drops of rain
Whisper of the pain
Tears of love
Lost in the days gone by.

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#91. 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.

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#92. Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

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

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#94. When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

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#95. I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

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#96. Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

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#97. 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.

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#98. Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

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#99. Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

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#100. I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

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