Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Townshend - Page 3

Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

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.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

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.

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

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.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

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.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?