Quote by Pete Townshend
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to inve

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

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I dont really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue. – Pete Townshend

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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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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. – Pete Townshend

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Music makes us want to live. You dont know how many times people have told me that theyd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. Thats the power music has. – Mary J. Blige

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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. – Joan Jett

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I think its a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesnt seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and thats ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. – Saul Williams

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I dont care what people say. My musics, my music. – Enrique Iglesias

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