232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

Give love, and keep blood between brothers.

The people on the hill, they say I’m lazy, but when they sleep, I sing and dance.

In the midnight of a soul’s unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

Looking back, I don’t know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

I see a boy with his mother’s ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’

It’s like the mod thing is happening again.

I also had the ability to create alpha-state music in my head, go into a creative trance, have musical visions, and.

Some kid writes in to me and says, ‘I’ve got all your records and I listen to your music all day long and I look at your pictures all the time and I write to you and all I get is a bleedin’ autographed picture. You don’t know how much time I spend thinkin’ about you lot.′ I write him back and say, ‘You don’t know how much time I spend looking at and thinking about teenagers.