Roger Daltrey Quotes

• You’re better off being a brick layer if you’re going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

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• Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

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• I hope I die before I get old.

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• Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

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• We weren’t wealthy but we definitely weren’t poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd’s Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

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• Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

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• I know my faults, but I’m comfortable with me.

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• I can’t retire.

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• European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

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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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  Tags in Change, Believe

• I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That’s how I became tough – I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

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• I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

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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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  Tags in Sing, Talented

• 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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  Tags in Serious, Problems

• I don’t care what people say about me.

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  Tags in Care

• I don’t over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn’t hear myself.

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  Tags in Myself

• 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’ve always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

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  Topics in Art

• I used to be a great blues singer.

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• My feeling was that I simply didn’t have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

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Roger Daltrey (47)

Birth:	1st March, 1944
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Musician, Lyricist, Singer

About

Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.

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Births

• 1946 - Mick Ronson
• 1884 - Alexander Wiley
• 1947 - Glenn Turner
• 1948 - Melody Beattie
• 1926 - Miles Davis

Deaths

• 1974 - Stewart Alsop
• 2008 - Sydney Pollack
• 1976 - Martin Heidegger
• 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth
• 1967 - Alexander Wiley