Roger Daltrey quotes:

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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.

  • I used to be a great blues singer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months, or maybe a year, then suddenly you'll wake up and feel like you've got to do it again. It's in the blood, and I never say never.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • I hope I die before I get old.

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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

  • I can't hit some of the

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

  • I don't care what people say about me.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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'm not always the most diplomatic person.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • You can do too much and oversell your market.

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

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