Quotes By Roger Daltrey

I used to be a great blues singer.

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

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

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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

I hope I die before I get old.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 care what people say about me.

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

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

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 always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

You can do too much and oversell your market.