Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshendis an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the rock band The Who. His career with the Who spans more than 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 May 1945
CityLondon, England
came early edited minutes record twenty version work
Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
although anomaly considered developing family guitar jack played uncle war worked
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
allow internet music ourselves power promised rock salvation saw uniquely willingly
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.
glad sort
I am old, right? And, you know, I'm glad I didn't die. That's the sort of thing you say when you're a young geezer, and what do you know when you're young?
religious world modern
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
oil water house
Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.
data world doe
Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.
color play culture
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.
cynical machines band
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.
activism fooled
We won't get fooled again!
want pretending want-me
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
inspirational fool plans
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
inspirational morning sunshine
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.
dancing finding-yourself losing-yourself
Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.