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Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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London
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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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 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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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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Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.
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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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I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven
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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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Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.
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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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Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.
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I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.
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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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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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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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I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
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I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.
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There's no easy way to be free.
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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.
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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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