The Who Quotes
-
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.
-
We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.
-
We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You can do too much and oversell your market.
-
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
-
All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
-
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
-
I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.
-
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
-
The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.
-
First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
-
I used to be a great blues singer.
-
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
-
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
-
I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.
-
I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.
-
I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.
-
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
-
Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
-
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
-
I don't care what people say about me.
-
I love playing for people.