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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.

Pete Townshend

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
PETE TOWNSHEND

Elegance Hold Mirror Rock
Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
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Explanation Machine Men
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.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Falling Heart Life Love
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
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Passion Philosophy Strong
It’s terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
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Bachelors Feeling Terrible
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Country People Records Rolling
I’M FREE! – I’m free, And freedom tastes of reality, I’m free – I’m free, An’ I’m waiting for you to follow me.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Freedom Reality Waiting
If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
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Brand Guitar Own
Good old Pete. That’s me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I’m writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn’t he too old to masturbate?
PETE TOWNSHEND

Firsts Thinking Writing
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Black Cinema Color White
Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Prayer Religion Religious
It’s an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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Brian Days Died Ordinary
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.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Color Culture Play
It’s like the mod thing is happening again.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Happening Mod People
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.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Fall Miss Pain Wall
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.
PETE TOWNSHEND

Dad Dance Inspirational

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.

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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.

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