I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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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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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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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.
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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.
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You know sometimes words have two meanings.
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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.
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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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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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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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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.
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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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I 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.
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Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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