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"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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"His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that."
"People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps."
"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"
"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents."
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
"I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band."
"To be respected, respect others."
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"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
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"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."
"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."
"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh."
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
"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."
"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."
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
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