Pete Townshend Quotes
Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
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 more than entertainment.
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
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.
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 and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect - and that itself is the secret to infinity.
I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
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.
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.
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
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.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
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.
