Roger Daltrey Quotes

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

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

I don't care what people say about me.

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.

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

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

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

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

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

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

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

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

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

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

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

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

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

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

I used to be a great blues singer.

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.

In those days I don't' think they were even demos.