Roger Daltrey Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person. ~ Roger Daltrey

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

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 used to be a great blues singer. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness. ~ Roger N. Walsh

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way ~ Roger Waters

Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun. ~ Roger Angell

In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions. These ~ Roger Scruton

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does. ~ Roger Penrose

Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work. ~ Roger Delano Hinkins

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. ~ Roger Mahony

When you go searching, you never know what you will find. ~ Roger Ballen

What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives. ~ Roger Leslie

Attitude is the scale on which we balance our strengths and limitations. Outside circumstances are less important in the long run than our inner view of our selves. ~ Roger Fritz

Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day. ~ Roger Dawson

Right from the beginning, I have been a Tiger fan and nothing else," Max Lapides said this summer. "Other men can happily go to ball games wherever they happen to find themselves - not me. My interest is the Tigers. They are the sun, and all the twenty-three other teams are satellites. ~ Roger Angell

Tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take. Lord, we both know that. Tell them to let go of what's gone because men like roger Briscoe never win. And tell them to hold on like hell to what they've got- each other, and a mother who would die for them, and almost did. ~ Billie Letts

We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion. ~ Roger Tory Peterson

Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresponsible with nuclear war. You might have been able to make the case that Carter was responsible. But it's very tough when you see a person with Reagan's nice-guy persona up there to believe this guy somehow wants nuclear war, that he somehow wants to antagonize the Russians into an attack. It's just not credible; it doesn't cut with what all your other senses are telling you. ~ Roger Ailes

Something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore"
"You did not just say that ~ Morgan Matson

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining. ~ Roger Ross Williams

What Jessica said - hair much shorter, wearing a darker mouth of different outline, harder lipstick, her typewriter banking in a phalanx of letters between them - was: "We're going to be married. We're trying very hard to have a baby."
All at once there is nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger. "I don't care. Have his baby. I'll love you both - just come with me Jess, please ... I need you ... "
She flips a red lever on her intercom. Far away a buzzer goes off. "Security." Her voice is perfectly hard, the word still clap-echoing in the air as in through the screen door of the Quonset office wth a smell of tide flats come the coppers, looking grim. Security. Her magic word, her spell against demons. ~ Thomas Pynchon

With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human. ~ Nadia Higgins

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ. ~ Roger Bannister

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. ~ Roger Mahony

On the field, everyone is equal. ~ Roger Milla

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. ~ Roger Bannister

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy. ~ Roger Ailes

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win. ~ Roger Martin

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past ~ Roger Scruton

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create. ~ Roger Garaudy

There is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real. ~ Roger Zelazny

For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. ~ Michael Moore

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. ~ Roger Staubach

The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in America. It would be taller than tress and it would move like corn in the wind. (The Pool ~ Daphne Du Maurier

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets. ~ Roger Ebert

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. ~ Roger McGough

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes. ~ Roger Caras

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.
That either part of partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as woefully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.
[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, March 28, 1648] ~ Roger Williams