I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTI listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTI 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 PLANTI wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANTThere’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
ROBERT PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTLately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
ROBERT PLANTSoon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTWhen 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.
ROBERT PLANTI 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 PLANTI’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTDolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANTMy 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 PLANTI’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
ROBERT PLANTI’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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