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 PLANTPeople 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 PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANTI 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 PLANTI listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTI don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
ROBERT PLANTThere’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
ROBERT PLANTI wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANTCome into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTDolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANTFinding 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 PLANTI 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 PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTI 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 PLANTLately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
ROBERT PLANTI’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
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