QUOTE - The Who

QUOTE - The Who
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The Who, British rock band, and their members:

• Pete Townshend
• Roger Daltrey
• Keith Moon
• John Entwistle

Pete Townshend

• "If you steer clear of quality, you're alright."
• "The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant."
• "I smash guitars because I like them."
• "That was bowling."
  
  After being asked on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour how he learned to play guitar (namely, the "windmill")
  
• "John [Entwistle] and I were listening to a stereo L.P. of the Beatles in which the voices come out of one side, and the backing track comes out of the other. And when you actually hear the backing tracks of the Beatles without their voices, they're flippen lousy."
• "Rock won't eliminate your problems, but it will sort of let you dance all over them."
• "I hope I die before I get old" - lyric from The Who's breakthrough hit "My Generation", written (like almost all of their songs) by Pete Townshend. The line is often associated with the essential outlook of rock music. Townshend has often publicly regretted writing it.
• "It is important to call your mom; it is important to tidy your room. It is important to make sure you don't have too many drinks and kill someone on the way home, or even scrape somebody's car. It's the little details that we have control of."
• "A song is a message, a song is a letter, nothing more, nothing less."
• "Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Saviour. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play."
• "When Roger speaks out about 'we'll all be rockin' in our wheelchairs' he might be but you won't catch me rockin' in no wheelchair. I don't think it's possible. I might be making music in a wheelchair, maybe even with the Who, but I feel that the Who have got to realize that the things we're gonna be writing and singing about are rapidly changing."
• After smashing an Amp after performing a song: Interviewer(Russel Hartey): "Is that ours or yours?" Pete: "I dunno."
• On The Who's early days: "In those days Roger was the undisputed leader and if you disagreed you got a bunch of fives. It needed someone with a strong right hook to keep things together."
• "...The people at Woodstock really were a bunch of hypocrites claiming a cosmic revolution simply because they took over a field, broke down some fences, imbibed bad acid and then tried to run out without paying the band."

Roger Daltrey

• "Rock used to be a right laugh. The trouble is that the rock press have made it all so serious. Fifty percent of rock is having a good time."
• "You couldn't pick four more horrible geezers to make the worst sound you've ever heard in your life."
• "There certainly is more in the future now than back in 1964."
• "I think Townshend's always wanted to be me."
• "Most rock films are pretentious. They're made for the sole purpose of making Robert Plant's dick look big. This is totally the opposite. Within the first half hour we're made to look complete idiots."
  
  (Regarding the rock documentary of The Who, 'The Kids Are Alright')
  
• (On a BBC Radio Interview) Johnny Walker: "Well, we got an e-mail here from someone who says thank you for the music Rodge." Roger Daltrey: "Ah, that's no problem, the music making has been free. It's the putting up with Townshend that's been the price I've had to pay all this time"

Keith Moon

• "My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John."
  introducing himself to Tommy Smothers on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
• "I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer."
• "You'll sink, not like a lead balloon, but even faster, like a lead zeppelin."
  to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. The group was named after Moon's remark.
• "Thank God!"
  
  After Pete Townshend announced at the Rainbow Theatre in 1971 that "This is the very last time we're going to perform Tommy onstage."
  
• "I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world."
• "Learn Guitar"
  
  Moon's advice to those asking him for help on learning how to drum
  
• Russel Harty: Are you married? The Who (various): No, no, not to each other (etc.) Keith Moon: Are you married? (Russel Harty was gay)
• "F*ck off."
  
  Mumbled to a doctor telling Pete Townshend that he was "clinically dead" when he was just coming round to conciousness.
  
• "If you don't like it, you can just f*ck off."
  
  His last words, after asking his girlfriend to make him steak and eggs for breakfast

John Entwistle

• "We became rich later than I expected. Now I'm too old to enjoy my money."
• "I can't stand rap... people who can't sing do rap... you can sing rebellion as well as talk it... Hitler would've been in a rap band..."
• "God was our lighting man."
  
  (On the sun coming up and illuminating the stage during the finale of Tommy at Woodstock, 1969)
  "I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that."
  
• "The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people."
• "There's a better chance of Marylin Monroe making another movie."
  
  (When asked if The Who ever had a chance of getting back together)
  
• "I've had the dubious pleasure of knowing that he has performed 'Yellow Submarine' more times than Paul McCartney."
  
  (On touring with the Ringo Starr All-Starr Band)
  
• "The Who are the rock industry equivalent of what French movies are to the movie industry: deep and full of messages- but what the f*ck are they all about?"
• "I just wanted to see what it was like to be a failure."
  
  (On why he began his solo career)
  
• "They should have stuck to juke boxes"
  
  (On Wurlitzer guitars)
  
• "If we stopped a song every time I made a mistake we'd be playing in f*cking morse code"
  
  (After his solo band stopped when he played the wrong bass part during a live show)