Roger Daltrey Quotes

• Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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• But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

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• All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

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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 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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• I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

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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 always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

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• I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

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• I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.

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• I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn’t be here. I don’t mean to put them down, but I’m just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

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• I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

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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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• We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

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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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• I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don’t all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

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• In those days I don’t’ think they were even demos.

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• Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

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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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• We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

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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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