Pete Townshend Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.”

“When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.”

“It's sad when people break up.”

“Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.”

“I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.”

“It's like the mod thing is happening again.”

“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.”

“Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.”

“It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.”

“English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.”