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" All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. "
Robert Plant
Healthy
Over
World
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" It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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You
" I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. "
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" You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. "
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" Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car. "
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" 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. "
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" I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. "
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Way
Through
" 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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My Life
Life
" The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. "
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Past
Stone
" 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. "
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Great
You
Rock
" I don't think I've aged gracefully. "
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Think
Aged
Gracefully
" I hate wasting time. "
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Wasting
Wasting Time
Hate
" I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement. "
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People
Night
Achievement
" I think I surprise myself. "
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Surprise
Think
Myself
" I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was. "
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Like
Anything
Whatever
" The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. "
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Vocal
Exaggeration
Key
" It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. "
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Repetition
Your
You
" When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. "
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Black
Kid
Music
" 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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You
Lyrics
Stuff
" You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do. "
Robert Plant
Good
Know
Love
" I think I'm prone to panic. "
Robert Plant
Prone
I Think
Panic
" I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band. "
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Big
Band
Always
" When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do. "
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Old
Making
Years
" 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. "
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Real
People
" There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. "
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Folk
Between
Musics
" 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. "
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Idea
Imagine
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" To rock isn't necessarily to cavort. "
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