Roger Daltrey Quotes

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

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

I don't care what people say about me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

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.

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

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.

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 don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

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

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You can do too much and oversell your market.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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.

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

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

I used to be a great blues singer.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.