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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

Robert Plant

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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Compass Names Trying Use
What 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.
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Hippie Thinking Year
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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Cutting Dark Mother
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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Afford Ideas Kid Place
There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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Country Folk Music Similarity
I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
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Ambition Creativity Idea
I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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Aged Gracefully Thinking
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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Tenors Voice Wanted
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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Night People Year
I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
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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Leaving Musician Rock
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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Emotional Real Thinking
People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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Million Millionaire People
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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Attention Trying White
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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Achievement Awards Land
Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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Done Heaven Possible Stairway

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

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