Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. Pete Townshend backstageclickcurl share on social
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. Pete Townshend bobdylanlong Change image and share on social
The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. Pete Townshend badbaldgood Change image and share on social
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique. Pete Townshend artcollectform share on social
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. Pete Townshend degreedisbelieffaith Change image and share on social
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. Pete Townshend deafhearhelp Change image and share on social
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. Pete Townshend earlyforminternal Change image and share on social
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 accompanydramaticmusic share on social
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. Pete Townshend agoartistdiscipline Change image and share on social
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. Pete Townshend armstrongbanjobeiderbecke Change image and share on social
