What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
ROBERT PLANTI was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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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.
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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.
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It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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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.
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There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
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