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Pete Townshend Quotes

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 19, 1945

Topics

Men Angry Writing Theatre Political

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Robert Klein

Remember Boring Way Social Stuff

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

Steve Forbert

Trying New Anybody

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Ruben Studdard

Cool Doing Personal Up Fans Being

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

Mike Myers

You Happen Greatest Fatherhood Who

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

Power Struggle Man Memory Forgetting

Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

Jason Jones

Family School You Go Never See

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Jason Reitman

Simple Believe You Blood Director

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

Dolly Parton

Trying You Find Whatever Own Niche

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

Dennis Crowley

Job People You Know Say Google

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Clayton M. Christensen

Service Finance Balance American Put

Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.

Brian Littrell

Help Right Always Doctors

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

Brad Thor

Good Humor Wife Me Sense Of Humor