Quotes By Robert Plant

I think I surprise myself.

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!

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

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

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

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

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

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

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

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

My dad played fiddle as well.

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.

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

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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.

I hate wasting time.

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

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