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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More Robert Plant Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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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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Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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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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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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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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People 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.
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People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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You know sometimes words have two meanings.
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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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I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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