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I hope I die before I get old.
I used to be a great blues singer.
I don't care what people say about me.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.
You can do too much and oversell your market.
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
In those days I don't' think they were even demos.
I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.
You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
I can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues.
Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
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.
Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
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.
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
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.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.