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Roger Daltrey

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

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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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    Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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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 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 can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues.

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

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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 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.

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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 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 love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

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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.

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    I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

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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 struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

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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 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.

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    I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

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

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

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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.

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

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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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    My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

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    Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.

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

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    Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

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    There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

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    The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

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

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

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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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    When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.

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

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