Roger Daltrey Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 care what people say about me.

I can't retire.

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.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 hope I die before I get old.

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.