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Pete Townshend

"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today."

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"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today."

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Aberjhani

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Aberjhani

"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."

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Aberjhani

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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Aberjhani

"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."

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Aberjhani

"The industry is a menace to artists."

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Aberjhani

"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."

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Aberjhani

"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."

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Aberjhani

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

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Aberjhani

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

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Aberjhani

"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."

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Pete Townshend
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."

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Pete Townshend
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

Guitar

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Pete Townshend
"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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Pete Townshend
"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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Pete Townshend
"I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious."

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Pete Townshend
"What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street."

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Pete Townshend
"I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours."

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Pete Townshend
"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."

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Pete Townshend
"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."

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Pete Townshend
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."

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