Robert Plant Quotes

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 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'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 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.

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

My dad played fiddle as well.

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

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.

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

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 How could it become outdated?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.

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

I'm a grandfather now.

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

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.

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.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.

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

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

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

I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys ... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

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

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.

There are two roads you can go by, they meet up in the long run, but there is still time to change the road your on.

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

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

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

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

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

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old ... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

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

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

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

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

Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.

I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

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.

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

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.

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.

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license!

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

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

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

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

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

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.

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.

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

Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.

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

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.

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.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

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

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

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

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.

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

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

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power ... it's the goodness.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

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

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

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

If you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors.

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

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

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

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?"

People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God." I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.

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

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?

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!

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.

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

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

Does anyone remember laughter?

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

Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

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

Alone I'm nothing.

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

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.

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

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

And though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune
Each have several rays

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

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