232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for – remember, you will get it all.

The facts don’t always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I’m not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

The day you open your mind to music, you’re halfway to opening your mind to life.

The music we play has to be tomorrow’s, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

I’m an air-conditioned gypsy.

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.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that’s what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

It’s an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.