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

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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."
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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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"As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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