Quotes from Roger Daltrey


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


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.


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.


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'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!


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


I used to be a great blues 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 love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.


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


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


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