Pete Townshend Quotes

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

Pete Townshend

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GoodFatherDanceGuitarPlayFirst

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

TimeKeyEasyYouRight TimePlay

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

John Frankenheimer

LearnYouActorListenFirst

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

Ann Cleeves

ProudNameYouNeverCallMust

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Tom Clancy

MenBegunWarsFrightened

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Robbie Williams

MusicArtMeKindPopGeneral

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

Rush Limbaugh

PeopleAdmitWillTalkFirstTwo

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'

Miguel Syjuco

LifeChangePurposeBelieveMy Life

In fighting, when someone's signed up to fight me, I'm not humble. I've never been humble.

Luke Rockhold

HumbleFightMeFightingSomeoneUp

I like talking to people.

Miles Teller

PeopleTalkingLike

Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.

Jonathan Ive

ValuesWhoObjectsMadeDescribe

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

David Wilcock

TimeTravelWorldTransformationDNA

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

Bruce Oldfield

HumblePeopleLookDownNoseHere

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