Robert Plant Quotes

I’m a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

I’d break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven’) in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don’t know. It’s just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I’m an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I’ve been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven’ for me.

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

I’m tipping the hat and looking back.

Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there’s not a lot to talk about unless you’re in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Being good isn’t just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

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.

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.

I hate cliché. And when you’re a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the ’70s, which we know all about, and the ’80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the ’90s, which was a great time for experimentation… and I’m really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I’ve been involved with.

I’m too old for Led Zeppelin.