Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshendis an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the rock band The Who. His career with the Who spans more than 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 May 1945
CityLondon, England
thinking produce incumbents
I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.
anger proportion blur
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
guitar brands ifs
If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
song writing sondheim
I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.
writing thinking firsts
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?
loud needed knows
Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.
sex legs faces
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.
play fool
Any fool can hide, few can play.
beach real men
Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.
break-up breakup people
It's sad when people break up.
believe writing years
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
flames fool burned
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
blood rocks rock-n-roll
If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.
worry musician tools
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.