Best Robert Plant Quotes

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

Robert Plant

#2. I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.

Robert Plant

#3. 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

#4. If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.

Robert Ludlum

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

Robert Plant

#6. I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

Billy Joel

#7. My dad played fiddle as well.

Robert Plant

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

Robert Plant

#9. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

Robert Treat Paine

#10. The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Robert Plant

#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.

Robert Plant

#12. When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him ... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Jennifer Nettles

#13. 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

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

Robert Plant

#15. If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

Kurt Cobain

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

Robert Plant

#17. I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Robert Plant

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

Robert Plant

#19. Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Robert MacNeil

#20. 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.

Robert Plant

#21. Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.

Robert Plant

#22. Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

Robert Pollard

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

Robert Plant

#24. Alone I'm nothing.

Robert Plant

#25. 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.

Robert Plant

#26. One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

Richard Marx

#27. There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

Tori Amos

#28. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#29. 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.

Robert Plant

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

Robert Plant

#31. Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Robert Louis Stevenson

#32. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.

Robert Plant