Robert Plant Quotes
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Quotes to Explore
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I love to be surprised.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Whence come night and flood? How they disappear? Whither flies night from day; And how is it not seen?
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
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I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.
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There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
