Roger Daltrey Quotes
"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
"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: People, Man)
"I always used to develop a cold going into the studio."
- Roger Daltrey
"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Sound, Voice)
"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
(Related: Success, Music)
"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
(Related: Time, Failure, Word)
"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
(Related: Time, People, Devotion, Fact, Fans, Fun, Play)
"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
(Related: Love, Humor, Work, Irony, Songs)
"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
(Related: Life, Moon, Today)
"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."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Time, God, Appearance, Kids)
"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
(Related: Fatigue)
"We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Life, Moon)
"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Being, Guitar, Play)
"Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Day, Nothing)
"We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group."
- Roger Daltrey
"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: People, Career)
"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
(Related: Family, Life, War, Baby, Fight, Years)
"My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Love)
"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
(Related: Time, First)
"In those days I don't' think they were even demos."
- Roger Daltrey
"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Ideas)
"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
(Related: Community, Crime, Friends, Poor, Villainy)