The Who Quotes
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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.
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European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
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No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
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Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
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You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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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.
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
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But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
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I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
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I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
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I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.