Robert Plant Quotes

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

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

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

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.

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.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

There's still time to change the road you're on...

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

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

Does anyone remember laughter?

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

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

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.

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

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

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

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

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

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.

You know sometimes words have two meanings.

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.

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.

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?

The music beckons to those who are listening.

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

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

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

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

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

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

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?"

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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