Robert Plant Quotes

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

Play the charts like the Beatles.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.