Entwistle Quotes & Sayings

Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think that someone we loved, trusted and opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief. The betrayals to the family, to Neil's family, to our family (and) to our friends here and in the UK are unbearable. — Joe Flaherty

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. — John Entwistle

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud. — John Entwistle

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them. — John Entwistle

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play. — John Entwistle

Excerpted From Chapter 18
The most famous sign in the world was only a few hundred yards above me, and the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. The light bulbs surrounding the letters must have been controlled by a timer of some kind because they were off now. But what shocked me was the scale. I was used to seeing the sign from a distance. From this perspective there was no sense of the word HOLLYWOODLAND. All I saw were gigantic letters looming dimly above me in the moonlight like ancient monoliths erected in tribute to the gods of some long-extinct tribe.
A primal feeling of foreboding prickled the hairs on the back of my neck. I could imagine the traveler of an earlier age coming across Stonehenge in the dark and experiencing a similar sensation. — H.P. Oliver

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before. — John Entwistle

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with. — John Entwistle

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one. — John Entwistle

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before. — John Entwistle

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm. — John Entwistle

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far. — John Entwistle

I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one. — Chris Squire

I don't wish my career on anyone. — John Entwistle

People die . . . but love endures immortal. — Vaughn Entwistle

I love playing for people. — John Entwistle

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add. — John Entwistle

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. — John Entwistle

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. — John Entwistle

I can't stand rap ... people who can't sing do rap ... you can sing rebellion as well as talk it ... Hitler would have been in a rap band. — John Entwistle

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out. — John Entwistle

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. — John Entwistle

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that. — John Entwistle

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. — John Entwistle

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play. — John Entwistle

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts. — John Entwistle

I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist. — Ted Nugent

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people. — John Entwistle