Pete Townshend

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

— Pete Townshend

We won't get fooled again!

— Pete Townshend

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

— Pete Townshend

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

— Pete Townshend

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance…

— 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…

— 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

I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I…

— 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

Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and…

— Pete Townshend

“I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the…

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop…

— Pete Townshend

In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when…

— Pete Townshend

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very…

— Pete Townshend

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back…

— Pete Townshend

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite…

— Pete Townshend

“For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory…

— Pete Townshend

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage.…

— Pete Townshend

“I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America,…

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend

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

— Pete Townshend