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
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Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
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Parade your pallor in iniquity.
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Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.
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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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Your love is like heroin.
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Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.
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Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.
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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.
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The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.
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I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
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Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
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I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.
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I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
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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.