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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#being #brilliant #british #class #culturally

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#child #creatively #done #everything #forgotten

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

#did #exist #felt #go #had

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

#any #backstage #band #dad #dance

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

#called #elegance #felt #holding #i

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#believe #bit #could #i #just

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#because #classified #feels #how #i

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#good #interesting #lack #meat #purpose

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#any #described #dramatic #i #i write

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#angles #come #create #drama #either