Robert Plant Quotes

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.

It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

I don't want my music to be of its time; I want it to be timeless.

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

I want to create songs that will last across time.

The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's legendary and classic.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

I think Marvin Gaye is one of the greatest American music icons. His 'What's Going On' is as fresh today as when he did it.