Roger Daltrey Quotes

• You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn’t do. I was totally anti-everything.

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• You have to keep fit being a singer – that’s part of the job. You can’t do it unless you have incredible stamina.

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• You can do too much and oversell your market.

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

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• I’ve never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

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• I’m not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

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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 used to be a great blues singer.

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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 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 hope I die before I get old.

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

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• 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 feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can’t sing.

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

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

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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

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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