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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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We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

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I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

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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.'

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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

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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. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: May 19th, 1945

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