Robert Plant Quotes

It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

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

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

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

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

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

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.

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

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me.

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

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

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

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

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?

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

The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

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

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.

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.

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.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

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

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.

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

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.