Top 50 Robert Plant Quotes

I hate cliche.

I think I surprise myself.

I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn’t want to go on!

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there’s a generation of kids now who won’t know it, post-Linkin Park.

Entertainment isn’t just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it’s great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I’m just lucky because my kids are grown-up – I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don’t need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

I hate wasting time.

It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. It’s an obsessive character trait that’s getting worse. I don’t switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something’s going wrong.

I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.

Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

Since I was a kid, I’ve had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but I’d never really touched on dark Americana.

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.

My dad played fiddle as well.

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.

Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

It’s a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

There have been people I’ve warmed to over the years but, as the situation I’m in is so fleeting and transient, I’ve always known it’s going to be over kind of real quick.

It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

If I didn’t do what I do, I wouldn’t be as young as I am.

People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.

So many white kids, English kids – we had no culture.

Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

I think we’re in a disposable world and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is one of the things that hasn’t quite been thrown away yet.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.