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![]() Pete Townshend Quotation"It's not the fact that I WAS brilliant, I AM brilliant." "The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter." 'It's a very complex thing, and I don't know if I'm getting it across.' - about his rock opera, 'Tommy,' in 1968. Movie Title: The Kids Are Alright (1979) as Pete Townshend: Pete Townshend : When I'm on the stage - let me try to explain - when I'm on the stage, I'm not in control of myself at all. I even don't know who I am. I'm not this rational person that can sit here and talk to you. If you walked on the stage in the middle of a concert for an interview, I'd probably come close to killing you - I HAVE come close to killing people that walked on the stage. Abbie Hofmann walked on the stage at Woodstock and I nearly killed him with me guitar. A cameraman walked... a, a, a policeman came on when the bloody building of the Fillmore in New York was burning down - and I kicked him in the balls and sent him off. It's not like being possessed, you know, it's just - I do my job, and I know that I have to get into a certain state of mind to do it. Pete Townshend : If you steer clear of quality, you're alright. Interviewer: But wouldn't you say The Beatles have a certain musical quality? Pete Townshend : Oooh, that's a tough question. Actually, this afternoon, John and I were listening to a stereo LP of The Beatles, in which the voices come out of the one side and the backing track came out of the other. And when you actually hear the backing tracks of The Beatles without their voices, it's pretty lousy. Movie Title: Live Aid (1985) as Pete Townshend: Pete Townshend : We always said we'd never play together again. We always meant it. But it would have been kind of difficult not to get together again for this day. |
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