Pete Townshend Quotes
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If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
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In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
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I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.
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I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
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Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
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Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
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Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.
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I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
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I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.
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He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
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I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.
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Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.
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I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.
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I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.
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If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.
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It's like the mod thing is happening again.
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Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
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Give love, and keep blood between brothers
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It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
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It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
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