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 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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I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called rock and roll. – Pete Townshend

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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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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. Its just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile. – Barry White

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For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. – Dennis Prager

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. – John Armstrong

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