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 PLANTThere’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
More Robert Plant Quotes
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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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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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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It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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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 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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Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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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’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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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 a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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