Pete Townshend Quotes

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.
Pete Townshend

Jesus, Play, Idea

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Pete Townshend

Music, Makes, Trouble

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, Around, Sense

It's sad when people break up.
Pete Townshend

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Pete Townshend

Long, Four, Stone

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.
Pete Townshend

Life, Music, Color

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Pete Townshend

Work, Pain, Said

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

Off, Whatever, Until

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Pete Townshend

Pretending, Audience, Continue

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

Guitar, King, Link

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.
Pete Townshend

Down, Plan, Paris

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
Pete Townshend

Woman, Won, Feels

I want to age with some dignity.
Pete Townshend

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
Pete Townshend

Born, Mouth, Plastic

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Pete Townshend

Interested, Stories, Passage

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

Learned, Trusted, Tested

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
Pete Townshend

Died, Ordinary, Brian

It's like the mod thing is happening again.
Pete Townshend

Again, Happening

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

Age, Time, Tried

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend

Work, Best, Took

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.
Pete Townshend

Music, Black, Color

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

Job, Young, Reason

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 what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Pete Townshend

Men, Angry, Political

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

Sad, Live, True

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

Done, Two, Child

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Nationality: British

Born: May 19, 1945

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