232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

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

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.

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

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

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.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.