Famous Quotes

"I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue."

Pete Townshend on Dad

More quotes about Dad

• "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

  Pope John XXIII on Dad

• "When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

• "My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

  Eminem on Dad

• "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

  Hedy Lamarr on Dad

• "Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

More quotes by Pete Townshend

• "We tried not to age, but time had its rage."

• "I want to age with some dignity."

• "I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion."

• "I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue."

• "I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."