“Our fan base has always been predominantly male, but the 20% women are all completely and utterly mad. And uh, I’m comfortable with that.” — Pete Townshend (2004)
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“Listening to him sing — it’s one of those indications that the human race isn’t all bad and life is worth living and there is beauty and brilliance in humanity.” — Chris Cornell on Jeff Buckley for Rolling Stone. Jeff was placed 39th on their list of Top 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. (via moodswingwhiskey)
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“Start a band… Especially girls. They should start bands. There aren’t enough girl musicians.” — Kurt Cobain (via savoytrufflee)
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“It’s all wrong to even talk about rock ‘n’ roll but I don’t want to talk about anything else.” — Pete Townshend (1978)
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“The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.” — George Harrison (via mccartneymadness)
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“I wanted to be totally Led Zeppelin in a way and then be totally extreme punk rock and then do real wimpy pop songs.” — Kurt Cobain (via oh-so-zoso)
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“The other day I slept. It was great.” — Thom Yorke, after being asked “what’s the most fun you had this week?”, 1994. (via radioheadofficial)
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“My heart’s in music. It doesn’t really matter what type of music it is.” — John Paul Jones. (via oystertranscenders)
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“You can’t cheat kids. If you cheat them when they’re children they’ll make you pay when they’re sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that’s finally when they’re old enough to stand up to you and say, ‘What a hypocrite you’ve been all this time. You’ve never given me what I really wanted, which is you.” — John Lennon (via beatlesneveroutofstyle)
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“My mother likes our music, so if I can please her, that means we’re doing something right.” — Kurt Cobain (via theplanetofsound)
“If he [Paul McCartney] fell on a piano, by the time he picked himself up he would’ve written three songs.” — Donovan (via elizabitchtaylor)
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“People talk about mobs. But the whole purpose of a rock concert is for people to forget themselves, to lose their egos in the crowd and to disappear—a temporary sort of flight.” — Pete Townshend, 1979 (via anire)
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“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll” — Keith Richards (via vintagelovingfreak)
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