Quotes by Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

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

Pretending

Want

Want Me

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

Art

Denial

Way

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

Past

Teenage

Trouble

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Any fool can hide, few can play.

Fool

Play

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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.

Gun

Jobs

Men

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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.

Curls

Events

Wind

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

Beach

Men

Real

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

Long

Rolling

Thinking

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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.

Interesting

People

Thinking

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Can’t pretend that growin’ older never hurts.

Hurt

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