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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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who
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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.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
John Entwistle The Who -
At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
Keith Moon The Who -
I can't believe that person on the television is really me.
Keith Moon The Who -
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.
Roger Daltrey The Who
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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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
Keith Moon The Who -
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
John Entwistle The Who
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.
John Entwistle The Who -
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who
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I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.
Keith Moon The Who -
They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.
Keith Moon The Who -
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
It's sad when people break up.
Pete Townshend The Who