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
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.
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.
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.
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.
kings facts matter
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
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.
arrogance age interest
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
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.
rock-and-roll rocks world
No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.
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.
life doors
Let my love open the door To yourheart.
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.
inspirational dance dad
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
writing discipline finest
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.