Pete Townshend Quotes

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

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

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

I want to age with some dignity.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

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

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

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

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

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.

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

Let my love open the door To yourheart.

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

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

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

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

We won't get fooled again!

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.