The Who Quotes
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I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
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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 was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
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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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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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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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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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We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.
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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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I can't believe that person on the television is really me.
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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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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
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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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I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
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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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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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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 felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
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I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
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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.