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Pete Townshend quotes: I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

Pete Townshend quotes: We won't get fooled again!

We won't get fooled again!

Pete Townshend quotes: Any fool can hide, few can play.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

Pete Townshend quotes: Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Pete Townshend quotes: The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Pete Townshend quotes: Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

Pete Townshend quotes: The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Pete Townshend quotes: I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Pete Townshend quotes: I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

Pete Townshend quotes: It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

Pete Townshend quotes: Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Pete Townshend quotes: Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Pete Townshend quotes: Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

Pete Townshend quotes: The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Pete Townshend quotes: Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

Pete Townshend quotes: I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

Pete Townshend quotes: I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Pete Townshend quotes: I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.

Pete Townshend quotes: The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Pete Townshend quotes: Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

Pete Townshend quotes: If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Pete Townshend quotes: Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Pete Townshend quotes: I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Pete Townshend quotes: All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Pete Townshend quotes: Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Pete Townshend quotes: Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Pete Townshend quotes: 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.

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.

Pete Townshend quotes: I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Pete Townshend quotes: Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Pete Townshend quotes: I want to age with some dignity.

I want to age with some dignity.

Pete Townshend quotes: Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

Pete Townshend quotes: Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Pete Townshend quotes: It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Pete Townshend quotes: The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Pete Townshend quotes: Your love is like heroin.

Your love is like heroin.

Pete Townshend quotes: Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

Pete Townshend quotes: I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Pete Townshend quotes: Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Pete Townshend quotes: Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

Pete Townshend quotes: Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Pete Townshend quotes: I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Pete Townshend quotes: 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.

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.

Pete Townshend quotes: I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

Pete Townshend quotes: It's sad when people break up.

It's sad when people break up.

Pete Townshend quotes: Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Pete Townshend quotes: It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

Pete Townshend quotes: I smash guitars because I like them.

I smash guitars because I like them.

Pete Townshend quotes: Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Pete Townshend quotes: It's like the mod thing is happening again.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

Pete Townshend quotes: I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Pete Townshend quotes: Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

Pete Townshend quotes: Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Pete Townshend quotes: I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

Pete Townshend quotes: There's no easy way to be free.

There's no easy way to be free.

Pete Townshend quotes: In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

Pete Townshend quotes: Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

Pete Townshend quotes: I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Pete Townshend quotes: No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

Pete Townshend quotes: The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Pete Townshend quotes: In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Pete Townshend quotes: His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Pete Townshend quotes: I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Pete Townshend quotes: Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Pete Townshend quotes: Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Pete Townshend quotes: We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

Pete Townshend quotes: He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Townshend quotes: Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Pete Townshend quotes: Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Pete Townshend quotes: What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Pete Townshend quotes: I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Pete Townshend quotes: Life's a bitch and so am I.

Life's a bitch and so am I.

Pete Townshend quotes: Give love, and keep blood between brothers

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

Pete Townshend quotes: So remember when you're looking for troubleThat trouble is already busy with weaker men

So remember when you're looking for trouble
That trouble is already busy with weaker men

Pete Townshend quotes: Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

Pete Townshend quotes: I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

Pete Townshend quotes: I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Pete Townshend quotes: Judging by the faces of those around me, just the fact of Roger speaking to me meant that my life could very well change.

Judging by the faces of those around me, just the fact of Roger speaking to me meant that my life could very well change.

Pete Townshend quotes: 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.

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.

Pete Townshend quotes: I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Pete Townshend quotes: Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Pete Townshend quotes: Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Pete Townshend quotes: Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.
There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

Pete Townshend quotes: Don't cryDon't raise your eyeIts only teenage wasteland.

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
Its only teenage wasteland.

Pete Townshend quotes: It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

Pete Townshend quotes: We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

Pete Townshend quotes: I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Pete Townshend quotes: I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.