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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Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.
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When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.
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Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
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Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.
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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
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Parade your pallor in iniquity.
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The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.
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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.
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Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.
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We won't get fooled again!
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Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
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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.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.