Quotes from Robert Plant

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.

Does anyone remember laughter?

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

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.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

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.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

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.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.