19 Robert Plant Quotes That Are as True Now as They Were Then

Robert Plant is an acclaimed English singer and songwriter. He was the leading singer and also lyricist of the renowned rock band, Led Zeppelin. He led the band from the day of its founding in 1968 until the band eventually ended up splitting up in 1980. Since that time Plant has also built himself a successful career as a solo artist who occasionally joins forces with talented artists like Alison Krauss.

1. On the past

“The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”

2. On music

“Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”

3. On being a rock and roll singer

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

4. On The Stairway to Heaven

“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.”

5. On playing at stadiums

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

6. On the comfort zone

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

7. On being alone

“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.”

8. On giving yourself space

“People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That’s the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There’s plenty of air around you.”

9. On getting carried away

“I still like to get carried away, but passively.”

10. On questioning what’s valuable in life

“You have to ask these questions. Who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?”

11. On keeping up

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

12. On your kids growing up

“I’m just lucky because my kids are grown-up, I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don’t need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.”

13. On his vocal style

“My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.”

14. On rock and roll

“The trouble is now, with rock and 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.”

15. On taking chances

“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.”

16. On not repeating yourself

“There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.”

17. On being on stage

“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.”

18. On having one good concert

“I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.”

19. On having a good cassette

“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.”