Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way. Pete Townshend More Quotes by Pete Townshend More Quotes From Pete Townshend What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline. Pete Townshend discipline character father Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her. Pete Townshend running littles boys I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. Pete Townshend rite passages stories Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. Pete Townshend explanation machines men I want to age with some dignity. Pete Townshend dignity age want Any fool can hide, few can play. Pete Townshend fool play I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world. Pete Townshend modern religious world Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real. Pete Townshend real men beach Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow. Pete Townshend oil house water Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. Pete Townshend rolling long thinking Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins? Pete Townshend shallow dancing perception Your love is like heroin. Pete Townshend love-is-like heroin love-is Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you. Pete Townshend social-taboos kissing boys What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. Pete Townshend sunset glasses reality Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time. Pete Townshend loud needed knows I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today. Pete Townshend artist drama thinking Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate? Pete Townshend writing firsts thinking Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray. Pete Townshend new-york men mean But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. Pete Townshend people interesting thinking Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. Pete Townshend hearing terrible loss
