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 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.
ROBERT PLANTPeople 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 PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTSoon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTI listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
ROBERT PLANTCome into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTWhen you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
ROBERT PLANTI’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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 don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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.
ROBERT PLANTI wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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 PLANTThere’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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