Robert Plant Quotes

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.

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

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

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

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

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

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

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

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

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

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

I'm a grandfather now.

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

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

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.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

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

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

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

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.

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

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

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

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.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

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.