Pete Townshend Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.”

“I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.”

“A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.”

“I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.”

“I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.”

“What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.”