Robert Plant Quotes

I'm terrified of cliches.

I'm a cliche.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

I hate sequels.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.