Robert Plant Quotes

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.

My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms.

I think more like an entertainer rather than just a rapper. My overall goal is to never be listed as just a rapper. You know how Michael Jackson was listed as a great entertainer? That's what I want to be.

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.