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. – Roger Daltrey
I don’t over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn’t hear myself. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn’t do. I was totally anti-everything. – Roger Daltrey
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can’t sing. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
I’m not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
Unless you’ve been touched personally, it’s difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
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. – Roger Daltrey
