It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANTDolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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.
ROBERT PLANTWhat 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 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 PLANTWhen you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
ROBERT PLANTI’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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 PLANTThere’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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.
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 PLANTI don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
ROBERT PLANTSoon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTMy 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 PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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