117 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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