“The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.” StillsFinishedCorpsesMonarchy Author:Sue Townsend
“Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.” IdeasPlaySongJesusNamesSalvationSavior Author:Pete Townshend
“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.” InterestingColorGrewGrew UpEntertainmentGrayColor And Life Author:Pete Townshend
“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.” WorldFilmBlackWhiteSawsTelevisionColorEntertainmentCinemaGrayBlack And White Author:Pete Townshend
“I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.” AngerProportionBlanketBlur Author:Pete Townshend
“I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.” TroubleTypeTerribleHearingPrincipalDeafRefining Author:Pete Townshend
“I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.” ThinkingSaidPainSongMy OwnAudienceChangedEnjoyed Author:Pete Townshend
“Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.” ThinkingFirstsLongRecordsFourMinutesStonesBobRollingDylanRolling StonesReally Long Author:Pete Townshend
“He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.” IfsKingsGuitarLinksRock N RollRumble Author:Pete Townshend