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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it w

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color. – Pete Townshend

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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true. – Pete Townshend

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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. – Pete Townshend

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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. – Pete Townshend

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