All Pete Townshend Quotes
- As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no… Absolutely
- Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly… Angry
- For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let… Band
- I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I… Always Feel
- I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them… Audience
- I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they… Actually Try
- It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs… Blowing
- What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's… Alive
- What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order… Any
- If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. Anyone
- Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them All
- Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland. Cry
- Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… Acquisitive
- I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered… Back Give
- A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a… Acoustic
- My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So… Anomaly
- I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it… Allow
- In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a… Absolute
- What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from… Almost Everybody
- Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a… Actually Came