Quotes By Roger Daltrey

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I used to be a great blues singer.

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

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 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.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

I hope I die before I get old.

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

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

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

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.

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.

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

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.