8 Quotes by Pete Townshend about music
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Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
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The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
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We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.
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I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality he needed to be looked after by his mother.
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Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.
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Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.
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Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
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The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
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