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.
— Roger Daltrey
Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months, or maybe a year, then suddenly you'll wake up and feel like you've got to do it again. It's in the blood, and I never say never.
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.
You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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.
You can do too much and oversell your market.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
I hope I die before I get old.
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
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.
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.
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.
In those days I don't' think they were even demos.
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. 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... A rock god!
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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 don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
I don't care what people say about me.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
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.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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.
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.
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.
Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.
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.
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.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
I used to be a great blues singer.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
I can't retire.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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.
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.
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.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
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.
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.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
