Quotes By Robert Plant

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

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

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

I hate wasting time.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

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.

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

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

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.

Does anyone remember laughter?

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

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.

How can you consider flower power outdated?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 How could it become outdated?

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

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

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

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

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

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.