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
life doors
Let my love open the door To yourheart.
flames fool burned
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
loss hearing terrible
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.
want pretending want-me
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
children two three
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
drama thinking artist
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
children reality soul
In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.
pain wall fall
There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.
dancing finding-yourself losing-yourself
Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.
song heart sea
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.
teenage past trouble
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
inspirational morning sunshine
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.
worry musician tools
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.
brother blood giving
Give love, and keep blood between brothers