Pete Townshend

Quotes by Pete Townshend

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Musician · English · 1945

English musician (born 1945)

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“All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.”
— Pete Townshend, Who I Am
art denial

“Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.”
— Pete Townshend
hell humanity nature

“I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality h...”
— Pete Townshend
mother music r-b

“Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thou...”
— Pete Townshend
fighting roger-daltrey school

“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperati...”
— Pete Townshend
emotion music riger-daltrey

“Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.”
— Pete Townshend
deceit drugs friendship

“I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.”
— Pete Townshend
ghosts new-york

“All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.”
— Pete Townshend
art denial