Robert Plant Quotes

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I feel like I've always been drawn to a very diverse range of music and I've always enjoyed experimenting, so I'm not quite sure where exactly my music will go.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me.

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

You know, rock n' roll's an old carcass: it's one big cliche. It's so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness or vitality or meaning. But that's what I'm trying to do, to give it new meaning.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.