Pete Townshend Quotes - Page 2

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

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

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

Any fool can hide, few can play.

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.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

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

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.

For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.

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

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.

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.'

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

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

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.

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.

People try to put us down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Hope I die before I get old.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.