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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.

Robert Plant

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.
ROBERT PLANT

Emotional Real Thinking
It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
ROBERT PLANT

Beauty Love Rock Roll
There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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New Nothing Paint Sun Under
The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
ROBERT PLANT

Bastard Calendar Mirror
It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANT

Achievement Awards Land
Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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Done Heaven Possible Stairway
I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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Anything Flowerchild Happen
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 PLANT

Air Great People Rock Thing
I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
ROBERT PLANT

Ambition Creativity Idea
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANT

Tenors Voice Wanted
I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
ROBERT PLANT

Country Know People Really
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 treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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Enjoy Surrounding Treat
I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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Aged Gracefully Thinking
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
When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
ROBERT PLANT

Fantastic Volume Year

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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