Chris Squire Quotes

I would love to play the drums with '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.

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.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

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

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

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 wonder if I could make an electric bass.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

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 first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

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.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.

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