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
rocks important ridiculous
Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.
wind events curls
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.
hell pursuit behave
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
drinking way would-be
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
gay men rivers
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.
life falling-in-love heart
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.
writing discipline finest
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
yesterday play today
The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.
freedom reality waiting
I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
law class long
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.
teenage eye cry
Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.
break-up breakup people
It's sad when people break up.
rocks punk tsunami
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
kissing boys social-taboos
Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.