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I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar. — Drake Bell

Nobody has forever; you of all should know that. We have moments, mere moments in time, during which we're given brief windows to steal a smidgen of happiness for ourselves. Don't you see? This is our moment. Ask yourself, is this what Daltrey would have wanted for you? Eh? Confronting some rogue to get justice for people who are dead and no longer care? Wherever your people are, and wherever Daltrey is, they are somewhere better and the only piece of heaven on earth we have is us, and you're neglecting our chance here, to be happy. All you keep thinking about is righting the wrong, but the only wrong is inside your mind. The only wrong is you." I gasped, breathless, regretting some of my words but not all. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

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. — Roger Daltrey

I don't know, Sir. I just want to be here. I can't stay away," was her delayed response. Her mind was reeling from the sensation of his hand on her. "You realize that if circumstances were different, you'd be the one chained up, don't you?" "Yes," she blushed. "Something tells me you're right about that." Diego — Al Daltrey

... a woman's loyalty, or devotion, or intelligence isn't measure by the number of cocks that have fucked her, but rather who she is as a person — Al Daltrey

'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind. — Nolan Sotillo

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. — Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thought his tactics were dirty and when I shouted as much, he came over & forced me to retract. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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. — Roger Daltrey

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

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

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

We fell madly in love, all the while pushing the boundaries of Chloe's sexuality. When a couple have undying trust, anything is possible. — Al Daltrey

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

I used to be a great blues singer. — Roger Daltrey

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

I know it hurt, but you get so fucking wet when I discipline you. — Al Daltrey

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. — Roger Daltrey

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. — Roger Daltrey

Vacations are like orgasms. There's no such thing as a bad one. — Al Daltrey

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. — Roger Daltrey

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie. — Jennifer Egan

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. — Roger Daltrey

If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey. — Kurt Cobain

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

Chloe might be hard pressed to understand, with her ass still stinging, that my level of cruelty was as much for her, as for me. — Al Daltrey

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

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

We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph. — Pete Townshend

We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph. — Pete Townshend

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records. — Roger Daltrey

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. — Roger Daltrey

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

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous. — Roger Daltrey

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

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

I don't care what people say about me. — Roger Daltrey

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

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go. — Pete Townshend

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me. — Roger Daltrey

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band. — Roger Daltrey

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. — Roger Daltrey

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

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. — Roger Daltrey

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

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me. — Roger Daltrey

Daltrey was by all accounts the toughest man in the Who; maybe the toughest man in London. Filled with blue collar attitude, he strutted around the stage, screaming out the rage of a century of London's dead end lives, roaring like a young lion trapped in a decadent, dying England. Townsend wrote prettily, daydreaming foolishly individualistic dreams of artistic expression, but it was Roger's sledghammer voice that smashed the skulls of the enemy. — Dave Marsh

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

The thing about life is that life gets in the way. — Al Daltrey