Robert Plant Quotes

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. ~ Alison Krauss

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. ~ Robert Plant

[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. ~ Robert Plant

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

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. ~ Adam Lambert

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. ~ Robert Plant

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it. ~ Michael Palin

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

I'm a grandfather now. ~ Robert Plant

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him ... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob. ~ Jennifer Nettles

How can you consider flower power outdated?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 How could it become outdated? ~ Robert Plant

Alone I'm nothing. ~ Robert Plant

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

I want to play tennis and fornicate. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice. ~ Billy Joel

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! ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible. ~ Robert Plant

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. ~ Taylor Momsen

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think I've aged gracefully. ~ Robert Plant

I may as well do everything as if it's brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it's a compromise, then I'll ... I'll be in Wisconsin. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

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

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls. ~ Robert Plant

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

My dad played fiddle as well. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie. ~ Robert Plant

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

And I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore? ~ Miriam Toews

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die! ~ Tori Amos

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

The music beckons to those who are listening. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting. ~ Freddie Mercury

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

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

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! ~ Robert Plant

In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual. ~ Pat Benatar

Led Zeppelin was the rock band's rock band, but it was Plant who made it special. He had the knack of taking a seemingly inconsequential string of words, adding a searing shriek, and knocking the listener back on his heels. This was no less impressive on stage than in the restaurant. ~ Andre The BFG

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind ... like Robert Plant. ~ Tori Amos

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely. ~ Robert Plant

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

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. ~ Robert Plant

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. ~ Robert Plant

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?" ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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. ~ Robert Plant

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

I have no story. My story goes from day to day. ~ Robert Plant

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now. ~ Jimmy Page

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. ~ Robert Plant