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Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

Robert Plant

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Robert Plant
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
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Robert Anthony Plant
R. A. Plant
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I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
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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.
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I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
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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.
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Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.
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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
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I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.
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It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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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.
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Every place is determined by the characters who are there.
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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.
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I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.
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The music beckons to those who are listening.
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There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.
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