Roger Daltrey Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You can do too much and oversell your market.

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

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

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

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

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