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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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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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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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