Quotes About John Entwistle

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty toward myself & my future.

Rossana Condoleo

#4. We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

Albert Camus

#5. I love playing for people.

John Entwistle

#6. 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

#7. We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

John Entwistle

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

John Entwistle

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

John Entwistle

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

John Entwistle

#11. 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

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

John Entwistle

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

John Entwistle

#14. People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

Patti Smith

#15. 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

#16. The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy ... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Thomas Jefferson

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

John Entwistle

#18. 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

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

John Entwistle

#20. I don't wish my career on anyone.

John Entwistle

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

John Entwistle

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

John Entwistle

#25. 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

#26. Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else.

Chetan Bhagat

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

John Entwistle

#28. 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