All 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… Been
- Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black… Black
- I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. Anger
- It's sad when people break up. Break
- I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. Deaf
- I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who… Audience
- Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. Bob
- He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar. Been
- 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. Barge
- Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk… Backstage
- I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. Classified
- I want to age with some dignity. Age
- I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. Born
- I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. Interested
- I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted. Amount
- It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. Brian
- It's like the mod thing is happening again. Funny
- But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to… Andy
- Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make… All
- If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times… Been