The Who Quotes
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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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European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
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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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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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You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
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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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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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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
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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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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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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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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 know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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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 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 don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
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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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You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.