Pete Townshend Quotations | Page 2

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Why should I care? Why should I care? ... 5:15

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

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.

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.

We won't get fooled again!