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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who. His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century.

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Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

Dance, Dancing, Finding Yourself, Lose, Losing Yourself, Same

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Addicts, Drinking, Life, Sort, Way, Would Be

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Explanation, Machines, Make, Man, Men

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Cost, Days, Paid, Pounds, Rock N Roll, Smashed

Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

Down, Firsts, Think, Thinking, Write, Writing

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Color, Entertainment, Grew, Interesting

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Drown, Punk, Rock, Rocks, Tsunami

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

Huge, I'Ve Learned, Importantly, Trusted

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Bothering, Play, Say, Today, Yesterday

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

Blood, Enough, Give, Giving, May

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Modern, Morally, Religious, World

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

Deaf, Hearing, Principal, Trouble, Type, Unwittingly

I want to age with some dignity.

Age, Dignity, Want

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

Father, Guitar, Old, Style, Synthesizers, Written

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

Church Bells, Ignored, Judging, Lonely, Old, Remain

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

Doe, Inspirational Music, Let, Rock, Rocks, Roll

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.

Heart, Mountains, Open, Sea, Song, Vision

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.

Car, Glasses, Keys, Moon, Reception

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

Color, Culture, Hendrix, Play, See

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

Feels, Know, Know How, Man, Men

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