Pete Townshend Quotes

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• Let my love open the door To yourheart.
• The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
• Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception…
• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was…
• Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
• Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.
• Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.
• The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
• All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
• Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a…
• Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
• Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
• The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.
• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man…
• I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven
• No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
• Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You…
• If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands…
• I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything
• Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

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