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" I owe everything to the musicians I work with. "
Robert Plant
Everything
Musicians
Owe
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" 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! "
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" All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. "
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" It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. "
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" I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. "
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" 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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" The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard. "
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" I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. "
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" 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
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Always
" It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. "
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" Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality. "
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Hanging
Now
" There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. "
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Between
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" How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? "
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Power
You
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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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Without
Land
Kind
" I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. "
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Wanted
Voice
Tenor
" 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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Time
Think
Smile
" So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. "
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America
Eyes
Time
" Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street. "
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Help
Crossing
Street
" 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. "
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Friends
Music
Proud
" You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do. "
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Good
Know
Love
" The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. "
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Vocal
Exaggeration
Key
" There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. "
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Sun
New
Nothing
" Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. "
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Men
Old
Old Men
" My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today. "
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Today
Copy
Style
" I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. "
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Men
Think
Clothing
" 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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Dark
Music
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" I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. "
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Night
Song
Want
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Nothing
" There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact. "
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Jaded
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