The Who Quotes
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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's sad when people break up.
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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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I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.
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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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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
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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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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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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 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 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 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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We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.
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I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
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I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
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I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
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We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.
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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 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've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.