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Roger Daltrey Quotes
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Roger Daltrey
English
Musician
Born:
Mar 1
,
1944
Life
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
Roger Daltrey
Time
Good
Good Time
Per
Having
Having A Good Time
Rock
Cent
Fifty
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
Roger Daltrey
You
Guitar
Better
Layer
Better Off
Sheet
Metal
Off
Than
Going
Being
Worker
Brick
Play
Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
Roger Daltrey
Saying
Thought
Entertainer
Would
All-Around
End
Up
Want
Who
Ever
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.
Roger Daltrey
Day
Generation
Every Day
Nervous
Recording
Nothing
Every
Think
Gig
Gigs
About
My Generation
Take
Between
Days
Well
Came
Did
Just
Literally
Them
Used
Album
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.
Roger Daltrey
Wonderful
Crime
Rich
Community
Incredibly
Definitely
All My Friends
Wealthy
Because
Shepherd
Were
Up
Friends
Where
Grew
Bush
Poor
Villainy
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
Roger Daltrey
Group
Too
Edges
Were
Pop
Rough
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
Roger Daltrey
People
Out
About
Part
Knocking
Who
Early
Career
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
Roger Daltrey
Own
Voice
Like
Know
Singers
Sound
Who
Many
Actually
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
Roger Daltrey
Cold
Develop
Studio
Always
Going
Used
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.
Roger Daltrey
You
First
Loathe
Else
Record
Voice
Absolutely
Like
First Of All
Understand
Hear
Anybody
Anybody Else
Cannot
Stand
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.
Roger Daltrey
You
Beatles
Noise
Backstage
See
About
Could
Were
Hear
Just
Screaming
Literally
Them
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
Roger Daltrey
You
People
Difficult
Unless
See
Touched
Voice
Been
Whatsoever
Personally
Who
Millions
Millions Of People
I hope I die before I get old.
Roger Daltrey
Hope
Old
Before
Get
Die
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.
Roger Daltrey
Time
Age
Old
Met
Young
Think
Other
Only
Tend
Much
Who
Whole
Things
Load
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
Roger Daltrey
You
Job
Incredible
Unless
Part
Singer
Fit
Being
Stamina
Keep
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.
Roger Daltrey
You
Problems
Seriously
Stage
Every
Never
Almost
Got
Understood
Very
Where
Sweat
Much
Body
Your
Used
Your Body
Ill
Serious
Every Night
Night
Drain
You can do too much and oversell your market.
Roger Daltrey
You
Too Much
Too
Market
Much
Your
I can't retire.
Roger Daltrey
Retire
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.
Roger Daltrey
Poverty
Country
Live
Teenage
Rural
London
Some
Area
Highest
Highest Levels
Because
Got
Gets
Childhood
Just
Forgotten
Disgusting
Just Because
Miles
Levels
I don't care what people say about me.
Roger Daltrey
Me
People
Care
Say
People Say
About
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
Roger Daltrey
Enormous
Out
Must
Songwriters
Feel
Talented
Sing
Really
Who
Amount
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.
Roger Daltrey
Age
Singing
Year
Would
Slowly
Deteriorate
About
Deliberately
Voice
Fact
Until
Because
Getting
Stopped
Even
Kept
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
Roger Daltrey
Life
Music
Art
Me
Age
Realistic
Live
About
Fact
Felt
Always
Lot
Art Form
Than
Artist
Front
Behind
Form
Less
Deserves
Awful
Awful Lot
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
Roger Daltrey
Life
Thought
Rest
My Life
Lost
Band
Would
Would-Be
Dead
Sheet
Stick
Metal
The Who
Worker
Who
I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. 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... A rock god!
Roger Daltrey
God
Me
Broken
Fight
Tough
Back
Seven
Way
Out
Stuck
Foot
Had
Pick
Learned
Became
Rock
How
Up
Five
Anything
Chin
Jaw
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
Roger Daltrey
Love
Adele
Lead
Lead Singer
Singer
Deal
Real
Real Deal
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