Best Pete Townshend Quotes

The Top Ten

1 The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

2 Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM.

3 Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

4 I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

5 Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

6 Holding up the guitar he just smashed on the David Letterman show: 'We are going to sell this for charity and it's worth more broken then it is new"

7 I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

8 I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

9 Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

10 I smash guitars because I like them.

The Contenders

11 There's no easy way to be free.

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