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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.
Roger Daltrey
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Roger Daltrey
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 1
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Hammersmith
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Roger Harry Daltrey
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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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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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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 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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I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
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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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I don't care what people say about me.
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I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
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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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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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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 enjoy singing being in touch with something that is inside of me.
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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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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 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 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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But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
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I hope I die before I get old.
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I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
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