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" My dad played fiddle as well. "
Robert Plant
Dad
Well
Played
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" I still like to get carried away - but passively. "
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" 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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" 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've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. "
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" People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I hate wasting time. "
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" Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically. "
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" I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. "
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" If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. "
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" Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. "
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Men
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" I owe everything to the musicians I work with. "
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" When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. "
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" 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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Situation
Real
People
" 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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Always
Car
Goodbye
" 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
" 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
" So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. "
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Eyes
Time
" I think I'm prone to panic. "
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I Think
Panic
" I've still got a twinkle in me. "
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Twinkle
Still
" 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
American
" We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? "
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Laughter
Trying
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" There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go. "
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Where
Always
" I don't think I've aged gracefully. "
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" So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture. "
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" 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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" It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. "
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