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.
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.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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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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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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People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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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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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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Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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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 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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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’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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There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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