Robert Plant Quotes

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

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

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

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

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

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

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

I listen to the crowds [laughs] ... I like Blind Melon very much.

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

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?"

Alone I'm nothing.

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

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

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

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.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

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.

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.

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

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

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

I hate wasting time.

Somone Told me there is a girl out there, with love in her eyes, and flowers in her hair.

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

The music beckons to those who are listening.

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 really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

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

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

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

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

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

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

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

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

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

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.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

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

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

I'm a grandfather now.

My dad played fiddle as well.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

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

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

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

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

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

I think I'm prone to panic.

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

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.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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

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

Does anyone remember laughter?

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

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

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

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

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