Roger Daltrey Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#2. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#3. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#4. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#5. I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#6. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#7. The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp - Author: Roger Daltrey

#8. My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#9. 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! - Author: Roger Daltrey

#10. Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#11. Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#12. I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#13. There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964. - Author: Roger Daltrey

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

#15. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#16. A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#17. You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#18. Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into. - Author: Roger Daltrey

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

#20. I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#21. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#22. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#23. Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#24. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#25. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#26. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#27. I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#28. Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#29. I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#30. I'm not always the most diplomatic person. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#31. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#32. I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#33. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#34. In those days I don't' think they were even demos. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#35. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#36. I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#37. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#38. We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#39. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#40. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#41. My place, your place, slapped face, rat race. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#42. Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#43. I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#44. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#45. I always used to develop a cold going into the studio. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#46. I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#47. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#48. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#49. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

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

#51. You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#52. I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#53. European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#54. I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#55. I don't care what people say about me. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#56. I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#57. You can do too much and oversell your market. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#58. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#59. My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#60. I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#61. I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#62. 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. - Author: Roger Daltrey

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

#64. We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#65. I used to be a great blues singer. - Author: Roger Daltrey

#66. But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. - Author: Roger Daltrey