The day you open your mind to music, you’re halfway to opening your mind to life.
Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That’s inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
I believe rock can do anything, it’s the ultimate vehicle for everything.
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.
Rock ‘n’ Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them.
I smash guitars because I like them.
I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn’t a weapon.
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 felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
There’s no easy way to be free.
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won’t be classified as just a man.
Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for – remember, you will get it all.
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you’d laugh and say nothing that simple, but you’ve been told many times before messiah’s point you to the door though no one’s got the guts to leave the temple.
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.
Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect – and that itself is the secret to infinity.
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
It’s the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
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.
Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.