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Quote by Pete Townshend
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was col

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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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 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 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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Im quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense Ive got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I dont really have to do much else. – Ellie Goulding

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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts. – Paul Hindemith

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You cant give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know youve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. – Robert Plant

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In memory everything seems to happen to music. – Tennessee Williams

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