232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

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.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who’s badly burned.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record – Like A Rolling Stone – I think it was four minutes.

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

We won’t get fooled again!

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I’d forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Once she woke with untamed lover’s face between her legs, now he’s cooled and stifled and it’s she who has to beg.

What I’m trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It’s my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it’s very much alive.

Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect – and that itself is the secret to infinity.