Townshend Quotes
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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
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 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
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
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
— 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
Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.
— 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
Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.
— Pete Townshend
Your love is like heroin.
— 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
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
— 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
Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.
— Pete Townshend
I want to age with some dignity.
— 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 was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
— Pete Townshend
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
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
— 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
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
— 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
There's no easy way to be free.
— Pete Townshend
I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
— Pete Townshend
Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
— Pete Townshend
Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
— Pete Townshend
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
— 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
It's like the mod thing is happening again.
— 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 smash guitars because I like them.
— Pete Townshend
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
— Pete Townshend
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
— Pete Townshend
It's sad when people break up.
— Pete Townshend
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
— 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
I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
— Pete Townshend
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
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.
— Pete Townshend
'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind.
— Nolan Sotillo
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
I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.
— Bruce Springsteen
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
— 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
Give love, and keep blood between brothers
— Pete Townshend
Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
— Pete Townshend
I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.
— Pete Townshend
It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
— 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
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself. — Pete Townshend
Don't cryDon't raise your eye
Its only teenage wasteland. — 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
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
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 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
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
So remember when you're looking for troubleThat trouble is already busy with weaker men — Pete Townshend
Life's a bitch and so am I.
— Pete Townshend