John Entwistle Quotations

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

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

It is great to be back in a four piece band where there are a whole bunch of holes to fill and I do it. It is exactly what I want.

Our problem is that we play in a bunch of big bars and a whole lot of the younger people can't get into them and it is really frustrating.

My wife's in judge of me, Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be, I ain't been home since Friday night, And now my wife Is comin' after me

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.

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

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.

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

When I was six years old I was forced by my mother to learn piano, which I hated. However, it loosened up both my left and right hands.

Rather than use a cross over type system, I use three separate amplifier systems: one for bottom, one for the mid and one for top.

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.

It was a fourteen piece band and it was very easy to fill in those holes because there aren't any holes any more. They are cramping my style.

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

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.

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

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

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

I love playing for people.

I deep sea fish a lot.

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

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.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

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.

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

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.

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.

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

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

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.

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