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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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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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. Im not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. – Pete Townshend

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. – Anaïs Nin

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Theres something missing in the music industry today… and its music. Songs you hear dont last, its just product fed to you by the industry. – Jimmy Buffett

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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. – Billy Corgan

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And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, its catchy, and youve got a little bit of help, I think thats all you need. But there hasnt been that in music. – Joan Jett

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