The Who Quotes
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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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We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
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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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This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.
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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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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 only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
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I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
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They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.
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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 thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
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I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
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I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.
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It's sad when people break up.
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I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
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My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
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I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
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Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
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I deep sea fish a lot.
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
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I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.
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I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.