The Who Quotes
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I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
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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 like the mod thing is happening again.
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.
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I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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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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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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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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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
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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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I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
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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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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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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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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
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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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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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You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
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I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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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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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.