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

We won't get fooled again! — Pete Townshend

Any fool can hide, few can play. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you. — Pete Townshend

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

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

Parade your pallor in iniquity. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

I want to age with some dignity. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

Your love is like heroin. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

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

It's sad when people break up. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. — Ritchie Blackmore

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

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

Give love, and keep blood between brothers — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

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

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang. — Travis Morrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy. — Pete Townshend

I smash guitars because I like them. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend. — Bruce Springsteen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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