Roger Daltrey
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Thinking
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.Collection: Thinking
I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.Collection: Good Life
Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.Collection: Rocks
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.Collection: Cutting
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.Collection: Funny
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.Collection: Race
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris StampCollection: Successful
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.Collection: Mean
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.Collection: Voice
I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.Collection: Amphetamines
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.Collection: Fun