- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad when people break up.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to age with some dignity.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.
- Bald
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.
- Nov 07, 2020
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020