Ian McLagan Quotes

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.

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.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

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

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.

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

I got to meet Keith Moon!

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

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

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.

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.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

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.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

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 wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

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

I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the '70s, it just kind of became... mellow.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.