Roger Daltrey quotes - page 2

You can do too much and oversell your market. (Roger Daltrey)
I used to be a great blues singer. View quote
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I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not always the most diplomatic person. View quote
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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. View quote
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Roger Daltrey)
In those days I don't' think they were even demos. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself. View quote
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European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Roger Daltrey)
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Roger Daltrey

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Photo: Davidwbaker, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: English Musician
Born: March 1, 1944
Quotes count: 53