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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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 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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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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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. – Robert Fripp

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Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music youre testing those relationships. – Jonathan Cain

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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. – Keith Richards

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. – Warren G. Bennis

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