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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?

Pete Townshend

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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
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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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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 bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
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Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.
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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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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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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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Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
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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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Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
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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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