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Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
Composer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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Rocks
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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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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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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Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
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Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.
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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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Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.
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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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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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There's no easy way to be free.
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The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
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I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.
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Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around
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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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Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.
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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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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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It's sad when people break up.
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Let my love open the door To yourheart.
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Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.
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