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15 Quotations From Chairman Townshend

1. "People say, 'You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll
    be finished, they'll have nothing to live for.'  That's rock & roll !"

2. "Rock & roll is all that counts.  I'll tell you, in ten years, you'll know.  'Cause
    ten years are past & we know."

3. "I think the thing really is that there's a certain honor attached to it because
    of the fact that rock has said: 'We will do it right.  You've all done it wrong.
    We will do it right.  We will show you that not only can we write a song like
    'My Generation' where we write off the Establishment, where we write off the
    politicians, where we write off the group, but we write off the whole lot of you!
    We will get it right!"

4. "I am not a leader.  Neither yours nor anyone else's.  I am a rock musician,
    a mirror.  You see yourself when you see The WHO."

5. "Pop has become solemn, irrelevant, & boring.  What it needs now is more
    noise, more size, more sex, more violence, more gimmickry, more vulgarity.
    Above all, it desperately needs a new messiah who will take things right
    back to the glamour, power, & insanity of the Elvis Presley age."

6. "I wrote the lines of 'My Generation' without thinking, hurrying them - scrib-
    bling on a piece of paper in the back of a car.  For years I've had to live by
    them, waiting for the day when someone says, 'I thought you said you hoped
    you'd die when you got old.  Well, now you're old.  What now?'  Of course,
    most people are too polite to say that sort of thing to a dying pop star.  I say
    it often to myself."

7. "I realized that the only way I was ever going to fit into society & have a roll
    was via the guitar."

8. "Let's face it, you can't worship a guy for destroying an instrument in the
    name of rock."

9. "I think that without having the stage & the guitar - the weapon of the guitar -
    I don't think I would have gone on."

10. "I smash guitars because I like them."

11. "I think you should keep on playing rock for as long as you have an axe
      to grind, & if you haven't got an axe to grind, you should go into cabaret."

12. "Rock is art & a million other things as well: It's an indescribable form of
      communication & entertainment combined, & it's a two-way thing with very
      complex but real feedback processes."

13. "Sometimes I really do believe that we're the only rock band on the face
      of this planet that knows what rock & roll is all about."

14. "Quite simply, I feel that The Stones are the world's best rock & roll band."

15. "Audiences are very much like the kids at Tommy's Holiday Camp: They 
      want something without working for it."

Pete Townshend has been rock's Supreme Pontiff since writing "My Generation"
in his early teens.  These are only the cream of his many critical pronouncements
& outlines of rock philosophy.

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Well, there ya go.  First, I'm not sure Pete wrote "My Generation" in his "early
teens" but we'll give 'em that one.  Secondly, my fovorites would have to be
No.4, No.10, & No.13.  Hope you enjoyed !


- SCHRADE in Akron