Pete Townshend Quotes (page 3)
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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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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.
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We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
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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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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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