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
guitar brands ifs
If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
sunset reality glasses
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
rock-and-roll rocks world
No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.
loud needed knows
Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.
play fool
Any fool can hide, few can play.
father guitar style
Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.
activism fooled
We won't get fooled again!
arrogance age interest
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
color play culture
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.
today concerts function
What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.
cynical machines band
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.
responsibility thinking people
It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
song stars memories
We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.
inspirational fool plans
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.