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The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

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Robert Plant
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
Composer
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Robert Anthony Plant
R. A. Plant
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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.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
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I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
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It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
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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.
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You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
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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 How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing.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.
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It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.
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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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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.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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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.
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I've still got a twinkle in me.
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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?
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I don't think I've aged gracefully.
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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.
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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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When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.
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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.
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