The Who Quotes
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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 don't wish my career on anyone.
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
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To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.
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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 told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
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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 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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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 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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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 can't believe that person on the television is really me.
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I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.
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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 supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
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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 love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.
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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 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 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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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 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.