Robert Plant Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• (`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Nice, Heaven

• Little drops of rain
  Whisper of the pain
  Tears of love
  Lost in the days gone by.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Pain, Lost Love

• I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Years, Heaven

• And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Night, Want

  "Robert Plant: the showman must go on". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

• I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Trying, Albums

• The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Keys, Kind

• I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Thinking, Remains

• Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Different, Albums

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin