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.Collection: Smile
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Alone
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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!
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
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.
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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 think I'm prone to panic.
Does anyone remember laughter?
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
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.
I'm a grandfather now.
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.
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.
I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
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?
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
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.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
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.
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
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.
I don't think I've aged gracefully.