110+ Robert Plant Quotes On Iconic, Bluesy And Soulful

Robert Plant is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career and collaborated with other artists such as Alison Krauss. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Robert Plant on life, iconic, bluesy.

Top 10 Robert Plant Quotes

1. I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
2. 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.
3. Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
4. (`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.
5. There's still time to change the road you're on...
6. You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
7. My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
8. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.
9. I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
10. It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Robert Plant Short Quotes

• You know sometimes words have two meanings.
• The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
• There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
• I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
• There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
• I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.
• Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
• Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.
• There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
• Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

Robert Plant Quotes About Life

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. — Robert Plant

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift. — Robert Plant

Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings. — Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom. — Robert Plant

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life? — Robert Plant

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. — Robert Plant

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience. — Robert Plant

Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really. — Robert Plant

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid. — Robert Plant

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love. — Robert Plant

Robert Plant Quotes About People

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country. — Robert Plant

I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good. — Robert Plant

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right. — Robert Plant

Robert Plant Quotes About Feel

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin. — Robert Plant

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

There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards. — Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it. — Robert Plant

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly. But I don't really have a schedule now that's very challenging. I make the calls and I call the shots, so I feel reasonably centered. Sometimes, I wonder whether or not it's even necessary to do concerts and stuff. — Robert Plant

Robert Plant Quotes About Love

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. — Robert Plant

Robert Plant Quotes About Haven

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. — Robert Plant

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la. — Robert Plant

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way. — Robert Plant

Robert Plant Famous Quotes And Sayings

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really. — Robert Plant

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? — Robert Plant

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! — Robert Plant

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

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was. — Robert Plant

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

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage. — Robert Plant

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

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places. — Robert Plant

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

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

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I've allowed myself to be carried by other people's enthusiasm into places where I've learned a lot. There is no real tumult anymore. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate. — Robert Plant

The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out. — Robert Plant

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

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. — Robert Plant

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact. — Robert Plant

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition. — Robert Plant

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

Does anyone remember laughter? — Robert Plant

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me. — Robert Plant

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really. — Robert Plant

The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. — Robert Plant

There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system. — Robert Plant

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

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. — Robert Plant

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. — Robert Plant

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? — Robert Plant

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely. — Robert Plant

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself. — Robert Plant

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards. — Robert Plant

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though. — Robert Plant

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort. — Robert Plant

It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom. — Robert Plant

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either. — Robert Plant

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music. — Robert Plant

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why. — Robert Plant

I have no story. My story goes from day to day. — Robert Plant

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate. — Robert Plant

I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off. — Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius. — Robert Plant

My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out. — Robert Plant

I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of. — Robert Plant

I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license! — Robert Plant

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. — Robert Plant

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered. — Robert Plant

It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit. — Robert Plant

I owe everything to the musicians I work with. — Robert Plant

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place. — Robert Plant

I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content. — Robert Plant

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions. — Robert Plant

Life Lessons by Robert Plant

1. Robert Plant's work demonstrates the importance of following your own creative path and not being afraid to take risks to create something unique.
2. He also shows the power of collaboration and how it can help to create something bigger and better than what any one person could do on their own.
3. He has also taught us the importance of staying true to yourself and your own style, no matter what the trends of the time may be.