Top 16 Pete Townshend Song Quotes
#1. I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me in the streets saying, Yo Khaled, make another 'I'm So Hood.' We love that record so much.
DJ Khaled
#2. I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
Elisabeth Rohm
#3. I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.
Pete Townshend
#4. If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.
Jose Padilha
#5. The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
Sam Hunt
#6. A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
Pete Townshend
#7. A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
#8. Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.
Stormie O'martian
#9. 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.
Pete Townshend
#10. To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
#12. The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
Joe Eszterhas
#13. It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
Pete Townshend
#14. War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.
Dean Koontz
#16. Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.
Pete Townshend
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