"What I took back, because of my exposure……" — Pete Townshend
"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 that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline."
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102 Quotes by Pete Townshend
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Let my love open the door To yourheart.
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The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
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Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the…
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Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
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Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.
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Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.
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The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000…
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All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
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Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out…
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Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
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Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
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The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for…
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