Robert Plant Quotes
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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.
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All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
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I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.
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I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.
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It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.
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I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.
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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.
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To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
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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.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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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.
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There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
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The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
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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.
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Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.
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Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.
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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.
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I want to play tennis and fornicate.
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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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I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
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I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.
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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.
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Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.
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I have no story. My story goes from day to day.
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It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
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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.
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There's still time to change the road you're on...
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