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
children reality soul
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.
rock-and-roll rocks world
No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.
life doors
Let my love open the door To yourheart.
life falling-in-love heart
When people keep repeating That you'll never fall in love When everybody keeps retreating But you can't seem to get enough Let my love open the door Let my love open the door Let my love open the door To your heart.
inspirational dance dad
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.
writing discipline finest
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
drama thinking theatre
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
teenage eye cry
Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.
philosophy mind causes
Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.
rocks important ridiculous
Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.
fighting needs prove
I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven
order people theatre
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
horse mistake average
The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
wind events curls
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.