The best Quotes by Pete Townshend

The best Quotes by Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of The Who.

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.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

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.

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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

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London. The beating heart of England.

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England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

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Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

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In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

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The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

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Songs are as sad as the listener.

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

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"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

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Music is reflection of self

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

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