Roger Daltrey Quotes

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Roger Daltrey

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 1, 1944

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

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

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

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

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

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

In those days I don't' think they were even demos.

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

Roger Daltrey

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

Roger Daltrey

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

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

Roger Daltrey

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

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

Roger Daltrey

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Roger Daltrey

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

Roger Daltrey

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

Roger Daltrey

You can do too much and oversell your market.

Roger Daltrey