Pete Townshend Quotes

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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Pete Townshend
All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Pete Townshend
Hope I die before I get old.
This is my generation.

Pete Townshend
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.

Pete Townshend
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

Pete Townshend
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Pete Townshend
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday.
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again.

Pete Townshend
When I'm onstage, I feel this incredible, almost spiritual experience... lost in a naturally induced high. Those great rock-'n'-roll experiences are getting harder and harder to come by, because they have to transcend a lot of drug-induced stupor. But when they occur, they are sacred.

Pete Townshend
It is amorphous, but basically it always has the same job, which is to get you through the day. And that seems to me to be a profoundly important job; it is like fresh bread.

Pete Townshend