Quotes by Roger Daltrey

About Roger Daltrey:

Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the founder and lead singer of the English rock band The Who, which released fourteen singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including "I Can't Explain", "My Generation", "Substitute", "I'm a Boy", "Happy Jack", "Pictures of Lily", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again", and "You Better You Bet". Daltrey began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of the Who. Since then, he has released eight studio albums, five compilation albums, and one live album. His solo hits include "Giving It All Away", "Walking the Dog", "Written on the Wind", "Free Me", "Without Your Love", "Walking in My Sleep", "After the Fire", and "Under a Raging Moon". In 2010 he was ranked as number 61 on Rolling Stone??'?s list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.
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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

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

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

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

Roger Daltrey

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

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

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

Roger Daltrey

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

Roger Daltrey

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

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

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

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

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

Roger Daltrey

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

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

Roger Daltrey

I don't care what people say about me.

Roger Daltrey

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Roger Daltrey

Author Bio

  • NameRoger Daltrey
  • DescriptionEnglish singer, musician, songwriter and actor
  • AliasesRoger Harry Daltrey
  • BornMarch 1, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Film Producer; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Steiger Award