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Music Quotes by Pete Townshend
- The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
- 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…
- The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.
- Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
- It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
- The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really…
- Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the…
- Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Music Quotes
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- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong