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Pete Townshend


British
May 19, 1945
Musician
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It's like the mod thing is happening again.


Pete Townshend
Tags: Like Thing Again
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It's sad when people break up.


Pete Townshend
Tags: Sad People Up
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.


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


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


Pete Townshend
Tags: Because More Been
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Pete Townshend
The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.
Pete Townshend
Tags: Good About Going
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
Tags: Music Me More
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
Pete Townshend
Tags: You Really Were
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
Tags: People Than Much
I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
Pete Townshend
Tags: Money People Who
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
Pete Townshend
Tags: Good Like About
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
Tags: Men You About