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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 54 quotes by Pete Townshend Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group the Who. His career with the Who spans 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Townshend is the primary songwriter for the Who, having written well over 100 songs for the... Read full biography of Pete Townshend → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted. 0 Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention... → 0 When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment. 0 Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also... → 0 I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. 0 The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. 0 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... → 0 I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. 0 Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at. 0 He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar. 0 If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before... → 0 The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in... → 0 But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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