Quotes by Roger Daltrey

I hope I die before I get old.

— Roger Daltrey

Hope

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

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

— Roger Daltrey

Success

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

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

Love

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.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Education

I don't care what people say about me.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Roger Daltrey

Success

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

— Roger Daltrey

Happiness

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

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

Success

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

— Roger Daltrey

Life

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

Wisdom

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom