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I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

We won't get fooled again!

Any fool can hide, few can play.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

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.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

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.

I want to age with some dignity.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Your love is like heroin.

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

I'M FREE! - I'm free,
And freedom tastes of reality,
I'm free - I'm free,
An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

It's sad when people break up.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

I smash guitars because I like them.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

There's no easy way to be free.

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Life's a bitch and so am I.

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

So remember when you're looking for trouble
That trouble is already busy with weaker men

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

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.

Judging by the faces of those around me, just the fact of Roger speaking to me meant that my life could very well change.

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.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.
There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
Its only teenage wasteland.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.