The Who Quotes
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
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But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
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What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.
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I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.
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I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing.
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
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When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.
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I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.
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My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
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Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.
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So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
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I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
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I want to age with some dignity.
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
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I don't wish my career on anyone.
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To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.
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I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.
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That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.