Top 140 Robert Plant Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do, they gave me the springboard.”

— Robert Plant

102. “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

103. “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

104. “You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.”

— Robert Plant

105. “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

106. “Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.”

— Robert Plant

107. “I think I’m prone to panic.”

— Robert Plant

108. “I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. It’s an obsessive character trait that’s getting worse. I don’t switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something’s going wrong.”

— Robert Plant

109. “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

110. “There’s no comparison between the most precious parts of one’s personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can’t relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.”

— Robert Plant

111. “The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.”

— Robert Plant

112. “Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you’re going to be remembered.”

— Robert Plant

113. “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

114. “I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?”

— Robert Plant

115. “To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.”

— Robert Plant

116. “I owe everything to the musicians I work with.”

— Robert Plant

117. “Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.”

— Robert Plant

118. “I know that bands that haven’t put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that’s not the achievement.”

— Robert Plant

119. “Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.”

— Robert Plant

120. “I’m a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.”

— Robert Plant

121. “I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.”

— Robert Plant

122. “The 50s were great because I collected stamps.”

— Robert Plant

123. “I won’t do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.”

— Robert Plant

124. “I’ve got the big name, but I’ve always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.”

— Robert Plant

125. “It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.”

— Robert Plant

126. “I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I’m familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.”

— Robert Plant

127. “My sort of stability as a character – it’s never been one of my strongest attributes. I’m a bit of a clusterf – k. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.”

— Robert Plant

128. “Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!”

— Robert Plant

129. “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

130. “No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.”

— Robert Plant

131. “I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.”

— Robert Plant

132. “I have no story. My story goes from day to day.”

— Robert Plant

133. “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.”

— Robert Plant

134. “I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.”

— Robert Plant

135. “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

136. “Everybody’s got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.”

— Robert Plant

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

— Robert Plant

138. “What I want to do, I do! I’m pretty fortunate.”

— Robert Plant

139. “And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn’t be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that’s okay. I don’t care about the past, I’m a musician with ambition.”

— Robert Plant

140. “It’s a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.”

— Robert Plant

141. “There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.”

— Robert Plant

142. “I couldn’t imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that ‘Black Dog’ is still significant. It’s inappropriate.”

— Robert Plant

143. “I don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.”

— Robert Plant