Top 140 Robert Plant Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “It’s funny, you know, time does travel pretty quickly and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.”

— Robert Plant

53. “Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.”

— Robert Plant

54. “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

55. “There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.”

— Robert Plant

56. “I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn’t that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.”

— Robert Plant

57. “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

58. “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.”

— Robert Plant

59. “Life isn’t moving quickly; time moves very quickly. But I don’t really have a schedule now that’s very challenging. I make the calls and I call the shots, so I feel reasonably centered. Sometimes, I wonder whether or not it’s even necessary to do concerts and stuff.”

— Robert Plant

60. “I can’t regret until the end. And I won’t regret then, either.”

— Robert Plant

61. “All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it’s a very healthy thing.”

— Robert Plant

62. “I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”

— Robert Plant

63. “If I didn’t do what I do, I wouldn’t be as young as I am.”

— Robert Plant

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

— Robert Plant

65. “I don’t see what the point is in growing up.”

— Robert Plant

66. “I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.”

— Robert Plant

67. “The music beckons to those who are listening.”

— Robert Plant

68. “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.”

— Robert Plant

69. “Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.”

— Robert Plant

70. “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.”

— Robert Plant

71. “Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don’t even know what I’m looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.”

— Robert Plant

72. “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

73. “People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, “Oh, God.” I am slightly disheveled, I think. I’m really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.”

— Robert Plant

74. “There’s not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family – too many incongruous knocks on doors – “Hello, honey. Have you missed me?””

— Robert Plant

75. “Alice Cooper’s weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who’ve come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don’t think it’s right.”

— Robert Plant

76. “I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.”

— Robert Plant

77. “You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch – to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.”

— Robert Plant

78. “I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.”

— Robert Plant

79. “You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.”

— Robert Plant

80. “I’m like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I’m not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I’m not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It’s just the condition I’m aware of.”

— Robert Plant

81. “The essence of Bonham is what he didn’t play rather than what he did play – what he left out.”

— Robert Plant

82. “I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.”

— Robert Plant

83. “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.”

— Robert Plant

84. “A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.”

— Robert Plant

85. “There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.”

— Robert Plant

86. “I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren’t many of us left and I’ve managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.”

— Robert Plant

87. “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.”

— Robert Plant

88. “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.”

— Robert Plant

89. “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

90. “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

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

— Robert Plant

92. “I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!”

— Robert Plant

93. “There’s so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don’t get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don’t feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.”

— Robert Plant

94. “My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.”

— Robert Plant

95. “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.”

— Robert Plant

96. “When you’re singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I’ve never done before – some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up – he’ll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase – it’s like a quadrant.”

— Robert Plant

97. “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.”

— Robert Plant

98. “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

99. “When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.”

— Robert Plant

100. “I think I’m prone to panic.”

— Robert Plant