Quotes By Robert Plant

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm a grandfather now.

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

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.

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

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

I think I surprise myself.

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

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

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.

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.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

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.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

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

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

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.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

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

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

I hate wasting time.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.