232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

I refuse to have my best efforts - already heavily filtered in advance and subjected to the constraints of finance and time - rejected by any criteria whatsoever.

I have said many times... that I am reticent about committing to a tour without a completed new Who album under my belt. As things stand I am still pushing to produce some more songs. So the announcement (of a 2006 tour) may seem premature. It is not.

If I keep at it, with luck we should see a great new Who record before I drop dead. What helps is that I love Roger and he loves me and we are both willing to work and wait.

I am old, right? And, you know, I'm glad I didn't die. That's the sort of thing you say when you're a young geezer, and what do you know when you're young?

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

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

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

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

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.