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"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
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"I don't want to write, I'd rather draw."
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"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
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"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
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"I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it."
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"Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
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"I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band."
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"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."
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"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about."
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"I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious."
People
"What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story."
People
"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
Music
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
Music
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
Performance
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
Guitar
"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can."
Work
"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."
Today
"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
First
"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
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