Roger Daltrey Quotes

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 The Who

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• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

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• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  

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• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

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• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

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• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

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• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

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• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

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• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

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• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

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• My daughter loves singing above all else.

  

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• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

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• Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

  

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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.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Age
  • Singing