Pete Townshend Quotes

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late '80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.

Youth re-energises.

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.