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Pete Townshend Inspirational Quotes (71)

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The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
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Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect - and that itself is the secret to infinity.
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It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.
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Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.
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I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.
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In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.
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Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
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We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.
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We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
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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.
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Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
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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.
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Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
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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.
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Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
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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.
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Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
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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.'
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It's sad when people break up.
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When people keep repeating That you'll never fall in love When everybody keeps retreating But you can't seem to get enough Let my love open the door Let my love open the door Let my love open the door To your heart.
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Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
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