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 PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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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.
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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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When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.
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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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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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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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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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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 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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The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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