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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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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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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Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. Ive never let peoples opinions affect the way I write. – Katy Perry

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Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – theres music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing. – Julie Andrews

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An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him — and we would have fewer mediocre concerts. – Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts

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Theres a lot of music that sounds like its literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. – Aimee Mann

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