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Robert Plant

(1948) Rock Musician United Kingdom

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Robert Plant is a rock musician from the United Kingdom, best known for Executive's Guide to Information Technology.

Quick Facts About Robert Plant

Born: August 20, 1948
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Rock Musician
Notable works: Executive's Guide to Information Technology

About Robert Plant

After Led Zeppelin split, Plant began a solo career that earned him success and led him to work with musicians like Alison Krauss. He is praised for his energetic stage presence, powerful voice, and ability to sing many different styles of rock music.

Awards & Honors

Kennedy Center Honors Silver Clef Award Commander of the Order of the British Empire Americana Award for Duo/Group of the Year

Quotes by Robert Plant · Page 4

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

America

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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

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Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

Ego

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I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

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I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Asian

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I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another.

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

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There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

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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…

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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.

Another world

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Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music…

Artist

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There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you…

Amazing people

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I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's…

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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'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not…

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Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal…

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My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I…

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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…

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I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which…

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I'd break out in hives if I had to sing ('Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found…

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Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and…

Adventure

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And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good…

Ambition

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The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become…

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I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of…

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I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

Inspirational

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I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Acceptance

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All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

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There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Americana

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Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

Character

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Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

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There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Folk

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

Creating

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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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Im pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though Im not a huge fan. I know when to switch me…

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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'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Absolutes

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You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

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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.

Every night

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Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

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