Pete Townshend Quotes

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.

Pete Townshend

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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

John Ratzenberger

PeopleReadyHollywoodMany

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

Sophia Amoruso

FriendsMyspaceHad

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Steve Reich

MusicInterestingOutShiftMade

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'

Mike Colter

JobHappyBe HappyThinkYouFind

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Donald Sutherland

FireSomeoneYouBitternessToo Much

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Bob Dylan

GoodSleepBreakfastYouEatFans

Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

Archibald Alexander

HeartMomentYourselfBetterYou

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

BeautifulGreatGreatnessMindBears

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Annie Lennox

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Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

Peter Maurer

EnoughValuesHumanHuman Values

The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

Seth MacFarlane

FamilyWritingSlowYouLookKind

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Nita Ambani

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