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A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
Roger Daltrey The Who
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I deep sea fish a lot.
John Entwistle The Who -
I love playing for people.
John Entwistle The Who -
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
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.
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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.
Pete Townshend The Who
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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.'
Pete Townshend The Who -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I hope I die before I get old.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. 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... A rock god!
Roger Daltrey The Who
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
Pete Townshend The Who -
I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.
John Entwistle The Who -
In those days I don't' think they were even demos.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
Pete Townshend The Who
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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
Pete Townshend The Who -
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend The Who