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The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Pete Townshend

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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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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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I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything
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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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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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Give love, and keep blood between brothers
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Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
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There's no easy way to be free.
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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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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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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
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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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Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.
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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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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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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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Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
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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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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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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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Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
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