Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Plant
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Westbromwich
Robert Anthony Plant
R. A. Plant
Music
Absolute
Mississippi
Kind
Kinds
Blues
Really
West
Sixty
Never
Particular
Coast
Americana
Since
Obsession
Delta
Dark
Chicago
Fifties
American
Touched
Thirties
Kids
Absolutes
Sixties

More quotes by Robert Plant

Image
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
Image
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
Image
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
Robert Plant
Image
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Robert Plant
Image
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
Image
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
Robert Plant
Image
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
Robert Plant
Image
I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
Robert Plant
Image
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Robert Plant
Image
Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?
Robert Plant
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.
Robert Plant
Image
I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.
Robert Plant
Image
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
Image
The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I've allowed myself to be carried by other people's enthusiasm into places where I've learned a lot. There is no real tumult anymore. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.
Robert Plant
Image
What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
Robert Plant
Image
Every place is determined by the characters who are there.
Robert Plant