Rick Nielsen Quotes

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

I would love to play the drums with 'The Who.'

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.

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

I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.

I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

I want to play Keith Richards.

Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.