Moon Quotes

“Favorite food? Blues (speed). Miscellaneous likes? Birds. Professional ambition? To smash one hundred drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever. There you have it, the world of Keith Moon effectively encapsulated in a few choice words. Straightforward hedonistic pleasures, cheerfully destructive tendencies, and an unattainable goal, except in the words that Townshend had just written and which Moon alone would live up/down to: 'Hope I die before I get old.”
― Tony Fletcher, Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend

“classic single ‘Down In The Tube Station at Midnight”
― Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

“Townshend secretly longed to be rendered irrelevant, but his audience – which stretched further into the new generation than he liked to admit – would not let him go.”
― Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

“Any of these acts whose impact on rock music may not be apparent given their modest commercial success could never be denied the enormity of their artistic influence.”
― Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

“A musical revolution so long in coming was finally on the march.”
― Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

“whirlwind of somewhat belligerent delight.”
― Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon