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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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• 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 have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

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• To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.

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• There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

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• There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.

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• There’s no point stepping up to the golden platform if you’re going to repeat yourself.

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

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

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• Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

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

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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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• Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.

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• So many white kids, English kids – we had no culture.

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Robert Plant (68)

Birth:	20th August, 1948
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.

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