The Best Robert Plant quotes

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. — Robert Plant

I hate wasting time. — Robert Plant

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

I’ve had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don’t waste any time and I enjoy it. — Robert Plant

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

Life isn’t moving quickly–time moves very quickly. — Robert Plant

There’s still time to change the road you’re on… — Robert Plant

There are two roads you can go by, they meet up in the long run, but there is still time to change the road your on. — Robert Plant

There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. — Robert Plant

To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort. — 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

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

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. — Robert Plant

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

Don’t be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You’ve got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you’re just a singer for the sake of it, it’s not quite enough. — Robert Plant

I’m not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin. — Robert Plant

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 Plant

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. — Robert Plant

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

I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. — Robert Plant

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

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

I’m not trying to be cosmic, it’s just that everything’s on a roll and that’s how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition. — Robert Plant

Back in my day, we called it rock ‘n’ roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn’t like it. — Robert Plant

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

The music beckons to those who are listening. — Robert Plant

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

Music is for every single person that walks the planet. — 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

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

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it. — Robert Plant

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

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

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. — Robert Plant

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. — Robert Plant

What I want to do, I do! I’m pretty fortunate. — Robert Plant

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

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

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. — 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

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

No other life is as pure as the plants. It is no wonder we cannot understand them. — Robert Black

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

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