Top 140 Robert Plant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There’s still time to change the road you’re on.”

— Robert Plant

2. “As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”

— Robert Plant

3. “You know sometimes words have two meanings.”

— Robert Plant

4. “The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”

— Robert Plant

5. “Does anyone remember laughter?”

— Robert Plant

6. “The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy.”

— Robert Plant

7. “Music means communication to me. I say ‘listen you people out there, listen to my music, let’s be one.’ Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can’t define music ’cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.”

— Robert Plant

8. “I’m a grandfather now.”

— Robert Plant

9. “There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.”

— Robert Plant

10. “Six months go by very quickly when you’re a genius.”

— Robert Plant

11. “I think I surprise myself.”

— Robert Plant

12. “Don’t be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.”

— Robert Plant

13. “Life isn’t moving quickly – time moves very quickly.”

— Robert Plant

14. “It’s OK to quote from your past. But I’m more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.”

— Robert Plant

15. “Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.”

— Robert Plant

16. “I want to play tennis and fornicate.”

— Robert Plant

17. “I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.”

— Robert Plant

18. “Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?”

— Robert Plant

19. “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

20. “My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick – she couldn’t even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.”

— Robert Plant

21. “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.”

— Robert Plant

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

— Robert Plant

23. “I’m not a sad old hippie – I’m a joyous old hippie.”

— Robert Plant

24. “I’ve still got a twinkle in me.”

— Robert Plant

25. “I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.”

— Robert Plant

26. “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

27. “Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”

— Robert Plant

28. “When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.”

— Robert Plant

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

— Robert Plant

30. “A girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.”

— Robert Plant

31. “I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.”

— Robert Plant

32. “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

33. “No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.”

— Robert Plant

34. “The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.”

— Robert Plant

35. “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?”

— Robert Plant

36. “I’m tipping the hat and looking back.”

— Robert Plant

37. “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.”

— Robert Plant

38. “Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”

— Robert Plant

39. “Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.”

— Robert Plant

40. “All I can say is that it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you’re young and foolish.”

— Robert Plant

41. “Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there’s not a lot to talk about unless you’re in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.”

— Robert Plant

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

— Robert Plant

43. “Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.”

— Robert Plant

44. “I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don’t have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don’t get the flashback that you get onstage.”

— Robert Plant

45. “I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.”

— Robert Plant

46. “I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.”

— Robert Plant

47. “It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.”

— Robert Plant

48. “I think we’re in a disposable world and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is one of the things that hasn’t quite been thrown away yet.”

— Robert Plant

49. “How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.”

— Robert Plant

50. “People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.”

— Robert Plant