Riger Daltrey Quotes

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Roger Daltrey

Abby stood nervously before her Master in the classic submissive pose: fully nude, legs apart, wrists placed behind her back; deeply ashamed of her evident arousal. Worse, she had to recount in exact detail the proceedings of her last whipping. The whipping had been severe; as was the case with most of the clients she was commissioned to serve. Most of these clients were men, some were women, on occasion a couple, or even a group. Nevertheless her body reacted like that of a wanton whore as she retold of the sadistic punishments and extreme sexual use inflicted upon her body.
How far would her Master push her with these 'tests'? How far would Abigail go? How many times could she stand before him blushing; yet with that unmistakable tingle? Their relationship was surely headed for a collision course. Or was it? ~ Al Daltrey

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

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. ~ 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

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person. ~ 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

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

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

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

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. ~ Roger Daltrey

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

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

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. ~ Roger Daltrey

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. ~ Roger Daltrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

I used to be a great blues singer. ~ 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

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. ~ 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

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. ~ Roger Daltrey

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