Quotes by : Pete Townshend

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties....

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that....

We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range....

It's sad when people break up.

Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die....

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that....

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite....

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just....

I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music....

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front....