Roger Daltrey Quotes
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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
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My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
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My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.
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European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
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I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
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First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
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I used to be a great blues singer.
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Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.
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We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
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Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
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Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
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I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
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I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.
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I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.
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I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
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No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
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I hope I die before I get old.
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I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
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I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
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The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
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