Roger Daltrey Quotes

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

I've been talking a lot about how music chooses you because you can pinpoint when you had the epiphany that, 'Wow, I really want to do this.' But there's no real rhyme or reason about choosing to be in this industry. It's one of those things where there is no real guarantee; there is no real rulebook to follow.

I didn't want to be famous, I just wanted to sing.

I love to perform and express myself to inspire people.

It's hard to pinpoint highlights on tour because they're the gigs really. The whole day becomes about the show. From the time you wake up you are slowly building up to that.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.