The Who Quotes
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My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
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I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.
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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
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I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.
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At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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I can't believe that person on the television is really me.
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
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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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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
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I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
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My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
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What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
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I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.
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A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
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I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.
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I can't retire.
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He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.
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I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.
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Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.