Pete Townshend Quotes

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I don't like to sing loud.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I don't much like looking back.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Loud is a way of life.

Do you know it was a year a ago today?

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred thousand who are quiet.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I've always reflected on the game.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.