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Writing Quotes by Pete Townshend
- Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.
- 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…
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