Top 40 Roger Daltrey Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I’m not always the most diplomatic person.

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.

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

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

I don’t care what people say about me.

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

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

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!

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

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’m realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there’s an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I’ve always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

You can do too much and oversell your market.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can’t retire.

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.

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 used to be a great blues singer.

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.

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

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