Roger Waters quotes - page 3

"The Powers That Be" on Radio KAOS (Roger Waters, 1987) (Roger Waters)
"Leaving Beirut" on To Kill the Child/ Leaving Beirut (Roger Waters, 2005), regarding the war in Iraq. View quote
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"The Happiest Days of Our Lives" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979) View quote
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"Wish You Were Here" on Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd, 1975) View quote
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs. View quote
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I confess I've never felt like a passenger. View quote
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You take the risk of being rejected. View quote
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. View quote
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The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice. View quote
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We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. View quote
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I have no problem with any question. (Roger Waters)
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. View quote
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul. View quote
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. View quote
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. View quote
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Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollars and cents, Pounds, shillings and pence Can't you see It all makes perfect sense" View quote
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. View quote
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I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy. View quote
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Radio One won't play my fucking single ("What God Wants") because they know it's no good. They know it's not as good as Erasure or Janet fucking Jackson. They know that the British public shouldn't be listening to it. It makes my blood boil! If you're not 17 with a baseball hat on back to front, they don't want to know." View quote
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Music seems to help the pain, seems to motivate the brain. View quote
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The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime. You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom And talk to yourself as you die. Life is a short, warm moment And death is a long cold rest. You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye: Eighty years, with luck, or even less." (Roger Waters)
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. View quote
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How I wish you were here, We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year. Running over the same old ground, What have we found? The same old fears, Wish you were here. View quote
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When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who Would hurt the children in any way they could. By pouring their derision upon anything we did Exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kid. But in the town it was well known When they got home at night Their fat and psychopathic wives Would thrash them within inches of their lives! View quote
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Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes I can barely define the shape of this moment in time and far from flying high in clear blue skies I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide. View quote
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