Top 50 Roger Daltrey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I don’t care what people say about me.”

— Roger Daltrey

2. “I hope I die before I get old.”

— Roger Daltrey

3. “I’m surrounded by good people. That’s the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

5. “I’m not always the most diplomatic person.”

— Roger Daltrey

6. “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

7. “My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.”

— Roger Daltrey

8. “You can do too much and oversell your market.”

— Roger Daltrey

9. “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.”

— Roger Daltrey

10. “I don’t have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock ‘n’ roll could change anything – I don’t believe that. I’ve changed.”

— Roger Daltrey

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

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

— Roger Daltrey

17. “I’ve never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.”

— Roger Daltrey

18. “I know my faults, but I’m comfortable with me.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

20. “We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

22. “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

23. “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

24. “I love Adele. That’s a lead singer; that’s the real deal.”

— Roger Daltrey

25. “You’re better off being a brick layer if you’re going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.”

— Roger Daltrey

26. “I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.”

— Roger Daltrey

27. “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.”

— Roger Daltrey

28. “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

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

— Roger Daltrey

30. “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

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31. “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.”

— Roger Daltrey

32. “Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.”

— Roger Daltrey

33. “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

34. “I’ve always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.”

— Roger Daltrey

35. “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

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

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

38. “You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn’t do. I was totally anti-everything.”

— Roger Daltrey

39. “My feeling was that I simply didn’t have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.”

— Roger Daltrey

40. “I used to be a great blues singer.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

43. “Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

45. “I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn’t go with being a good singer.”

— Roger Daltrey

46. “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

47. “I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can’t sing.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey

49. “I don’t over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn’t hear myself.”

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Roger Daltrey