Pete Townshend
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.Collection: Music
Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.Collection: Running
Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.Collection: Mistake
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over themCollection: Rocks
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.Collection: Moon
The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.Collection: Facts
No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.Collection: Rocks
I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.Collection: Guitar
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.Collection: Law
If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.Collection: Rocks
Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.Collection: Remember You
I smash guitars because I like them.Collection: Funny
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.Collection: Hell
Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.Collection: Guitar
Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.Collection: Hurt
I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everythingCollection: Believe
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.Collection: Inspirational
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burnedCollection: Flames
There's no easy way to be free.Collection: Way
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.Collection: Kings
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.Collection: Writing
Parade your pallor in iniquity.Collection: Parades
I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.Collection: Girl
Any fool can hide, few can play.Collection: Play
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.Collection: Cynical
Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect - and that itself is the secret to infinity.Collection: Frustration
For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.Collection: Country
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.Collection: Teenage
Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: Sunset
It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.Collection: Responsibility
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.Collection: Inspirational
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.Collection: Music
Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.Collection: Philosophy
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.Collection: Cost
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.Collection: Kings
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.Collection: Gay
Give love, and keep blood between brothersCollection: Brother
I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgivenCollection: Fighting
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.Collection: Horse
Your love is like heroin.Collection: Love Is
Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.Collection: Sex
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.Collection: Religious
Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.Collection: Dancing