Time & Perspective Quote by Robert Plant

Plant is trying to name the high without sounding like a tyrant. He starts with the taboo word - power - because anyone who has watched a crowd move as one knows thats what it feels like: a single voice steering thousands of bodies, moods, memories. Then he immediately walks it back. That correction is the whole point. For a rock frontman from Led Zeppelins era, "power" is loaded: it carries the stink of ego, of manipulation, of the darker mythos of stadium rock where charisma turns predatory and excess becomes a right.

So he reframes the same phenomenon as service. The onstage "ability to make people smile" is a softer vocabulary for control, a way to recast influence as care. "Turn them one way or another" is telling: he admits the audience is being guided, maybe even engineered, but only "for that duration of time" - a temporary consent contract. The ethical claim arrives in the afterglow: if it has "some effect later on", the concert becomes more than spectacle. Its not just a rush; its a mood that can follow you home, a nudge toward openness, courage, maybe just relief.

Calling it "the goodness" is both sincere and defensive. Sincere because Plant has long been read as a priest of volume, someone who knows music can alchemize pain into communion. Defensive because history keeps asking rock gods to justify their godhood. He offers a humble theology: not domination, but uplift - influence you borrow, not power you own.