Robert Plant Quotes

I'm a grandfather now.
I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
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.
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.
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
My dad played fiddle as well.
Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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.
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.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.
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