We won't get fooled again! Pete Townshend More Quotes by Pete Townshend More Quotes From Pete Townshend Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around Pete Townshend would-be drinking way If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. Pete Townshend knows want writing For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go. Pete Townshend letting-go heart ideas I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue. Pete Townshend dad dance inspirational 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. Pete Townshend soul children reality If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll. Pete Townshend rock-n-roll rocks blood It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do. Pete Townshend responsibility people thinking 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. Pete Townshend frustration circles feelings Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. Pete Townshend curls events wind The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant. Pete Townshend kings matter facts I'm an air-conditioned gypsy. Pete Townshend gypsy air It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along. Pete Townshend music song moving The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday. Pete Townshend yesterday play today Parade your pallor in iniquity. Pete Townshend iniquity parades explanation It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. Pete Townshend brian ordinary-days died Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. Pete Townshend teenage trouble past People try to put us down Pete Townshend generations trying people The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. Pete Townshend rock-and-roll rocks writing Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind. Pete Townshend causes mind philosophy 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. Pete Townshend three two children
