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

Robert Plant

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.
ROBERT PLANT

Attention Trying White
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 PLANT

Hippie Thinking Year
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
ROBERT PLANT

Enjoy Surrounding Treat
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.
ROBERT PLANT

Night People Year
I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
ROBERT PLANT

Child Flower
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANT

Matter Nothing Sadness
I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
ROBERT PLANT

Aged Gracefully Thinking
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

Cutting Dark Mother
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.
ROBERT PLANT

Compass Names Trying Use
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANT

Tenors Voice Wanted
I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANT

Blind Crowd Laughing
The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
ROBERT PLANT

Bastard Calendar Mirror
Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANT

Done Heaven Possible Stairway
Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANT

Coat Sleeves Commercial Hanging
There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
ROBERT PLANT

Country Folk Music Similarity
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

Creative Past Thinking

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

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

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