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
song stars memories
We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.
facts adages
The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.
strong philosophy passion
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
religious prayer religion
Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
revenge mind want
I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.
family mother ambition
I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
father guitar style
Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.
pain wall fall
There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.
children two three
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.
today concerts function
What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.
drama thinking artist
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.
kings facts matter
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
sunset reality glasses
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.
arrogance age interest
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.