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Rock Quotes by Pete Townshend
- Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
- 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
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
- 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…
- 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…
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