What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

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.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

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

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

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

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

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

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.

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

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

Emotionally intelligent people know how to light their own fire to sustain their activities to accomplish your goals.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.