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Pete Townshend Inspirational Quotes (71)

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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.
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I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven
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Give love, and keep blood between brothers
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I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything
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It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
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I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
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Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
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Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.
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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.
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Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.
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The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.
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No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
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I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
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All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
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It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
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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
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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.
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I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
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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.
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The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
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Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.
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