Pete Townshend Quotes
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
-
Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
-
I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
-
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
-
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
-
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
-
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
-
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
-
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
-
I love listening to pop radio.
-
I don't talk in ifs.
-
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
-
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
-
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
-
Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
-
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
