I don’t view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It’s a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator. Pete Townshend Read Quote
It wasn’t just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. Pete Townshend Read Quote
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. Pete Townshend Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with ‘The Who.’ From 1982 to 1989 I felt ‘The Who’ did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go. Pete Townshend Read Quote
The bad part about growing older is I’m going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. Pete Townshend Read Quote
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won’t ever be a jazz drummer because he’s more interested in looking good and being screamed at. Pete Townshend Read Quote
To be completely honest, I think if I hadn’t been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world. Pete Townshend Read Quote
