Robert Plant Quotes

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.

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.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.

When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

AC/DC is a tough gig for everyone in the band.

Oh yeah, I've got a good relationship with Marshmello.

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.