232 Quotes by Pete Townshend

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I want to age with some dignity.

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.