The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
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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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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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Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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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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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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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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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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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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You know sometimes words have two meanings.
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I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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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 not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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