Pete Townshend Quotes

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

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• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

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• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

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• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

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• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

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• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

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• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

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• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

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• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

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• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

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• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

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• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

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• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

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• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

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• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

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• I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

  

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• My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

  

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• When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
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