There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
ROBERT PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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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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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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The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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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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Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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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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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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People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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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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Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I’m always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I’m alert.
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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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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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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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