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No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
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London
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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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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Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.
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