Robert Plant Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Robert Plant

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

My dad played fiddle as well. — Robert Plant

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

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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

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 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

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

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

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. — Robert Plant

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

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

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Robert Plant

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

I owe everything to the musicians I work with. — Robert Plant

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

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

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total. — Robert Plant

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. — 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

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

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

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

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life. — 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

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

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

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. — Robert Plant

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

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

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. — Robert Plant

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 still like to get carried away - but passively. — Robert Plant

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

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition. — Robert Plant

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

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. — Robert Plant

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing ... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

I'm a grandfather now. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

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. — Robert Plant

Music is for every single person that walks the planet. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

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

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

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 calendar and the mirror - they're bastards. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin. — Robert Plant

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

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

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

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. — Robert Plant

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

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. — 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

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

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

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'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. — Robert Plant

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

Does anyone remember laughter? — Robert Plant