Pete Townshend Quotes

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• Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

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  Running, Crazy, Rocks

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• The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

  Pete Townshend

  Music, Mind, Opening

  "Pop Chronicles", Show 23, digital.library.unt.edu. May 02, 1968.

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Perfect, Trying

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• Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

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  Rocks, Inspirational Music, Doe

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• The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

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  Facts, Adages

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• No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

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• I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

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  Guitar, Years, Weapons

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• Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

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  Moon, Glasses, Doors

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• I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

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  Hearing, Trouble, Deaf

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• Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

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  Law, Class, Long

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Blood, Rock N Roll

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• Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Enjoy Life

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• I smash guitars because I like them.

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  Funny, Music, Guitar

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• 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.

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  Color, Interesting, Entertainment

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• Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

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  Hell, Pursuit, Behave

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• Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

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  Guitar, Play, Yesterday

  "Song: "Won't Get Fooled Again" ("Who’s Next")". 1971.

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• I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

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  Believe, Rocks, Vehicle

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• 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.

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  Song, Pain, Thinking

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• 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

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  Drinking, Would Be, Way

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• We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

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  Inspirational, Fool, Plans

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• I want to age with some dignity.

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  Age, Want, Dignity

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• Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

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  Hurt

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• No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

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  Flames, Fool, Burned

  Song: Slit Skirts, Album: All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, 2006

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• There's no easy way to be free.

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  Way, Easy, Easy Way

  Song: Slip Kid

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• The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

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  Kings, Matter, Facts

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