#p

Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#parting #values-in-life #death

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

— Roger Daltrey

#disaster #european #fisheries

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

— Roger Daltrey

#buying #every #generation #musician #records

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

#done #i #like #music #pete

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

— Roger Daltrey

#feeling #i #reinvention #simply

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. ↗

— Georges Braque

#i #ideas #nail #painting #which

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

#back #became #broken #chin #fight

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

#because #childhood #country #disgusting #forgotten

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

#body #drain #every #every night #got

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#bow #did #everybody #get #god