Pete Townshend Quotes - Page 3

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• He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

  Pete Townshend

  Kings, Guitar, Links

  "Link Wray" by Garth Cartwright, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

  Pete Townshend

  Philosophy, Mind, Causes

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• I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Morning, Sunshine

  Song: Brilliant Blues

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• Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Keith, Jazz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com. 1966.

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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 bothering is yesterday.

  Pete Townshend

  Play, Yesterday, Today

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• I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

  Pete Townshend

  Anger, Proportion, Blur

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• 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 at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

  Pete Townshend

  Wind, Events, Curls

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• Give love, and keep blood between brothers

  Pete Townshend

  Brother, Blood, Giving

  Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• 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 reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

  Pete Townshend

  Jobs, Gun, Men

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• The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

  Pete Townshend

  Horse, Mistake, Average

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• If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

  Pete Townshend

  Guitar, Brands, My Own

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• We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

  Pete Townshend

  Worry, Musician, Tools

  "The Who goes on after Entwistle death", www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

  Pete Townshend

  Loud, Needed, Knows

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• Your love is like heroin.

  Pete Townshend

  Love Is, Love Is Like, Heroin

  Song: A Little is Enough, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

  Pete Townshend

  Religious, World, Modern

  Interview with Rob Mitchum, pitchfork.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

  Pete Townshend

  Lonely, Church Bells, Judging

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• In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Reality, Soul

  Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel

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• I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

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  Family, Mother, Ambition

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• 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 to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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• Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

  Pete Townshend

  Loss, Hearing, Terrible

  "Listen (If You Can) to Pete". www.wired.com. January 04, 2006.

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• Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Guitar, Style

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• Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Two, Three

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• Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

  Pete Townshend

  Teenage, Eye, Cry

  Song: Baba O'Riley

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