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

Robert Plant

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Robert Plant
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
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Robert Anthony Plant
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
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Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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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.
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I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.
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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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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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