Roger Waters Quotes (25 Quotes)


    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.

    The only realistic option is to divide the cake differently. After Live8 and the G8 summit, at least people are beginning to make noises about changing the deep imbalance in the world, ... I come back to the UK quite often. I didn't leave as a protest against the hunting ban I was following a child in the wake of a divorce.

    Eventually, though, ... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters.

    Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

    I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.


    Who is the strongest, who is the best, who holds the aces, the East or the West. This is the crap our children are learning.

    He was in custody when our officers got there, ... There's no need for an investigation. We didn't lay a hand on him.

    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.

    be given the opportunity to put the band back together, even if it's only for a few numbers.

    It's not just a piece about the French Revolution, it's about revolution in a much broader sense, and it's about the capacity that human beings have for personal change. The piece is an exultation and an encouragement to those of us who believe the human race can discover its humanity and its capacity for empathy to the point where it may be possible for us at some point to guarantee the basic human rights of the individual (around the world).

    All my life, ... I have been preoccupied with the great tragedy of losing family in wars. The pain of losing a parent or a child in (an act of) violence that is purposefully and directly generated by political forces is in a certain way harder to bear than if someone dies in, say, an accident. The death feels more preventable.

    I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

    I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

    I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

    It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

    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.

    Money it's a gas Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash New car, caviar, four star daydream, Think I'll buy me a football team.

    Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

    It's great to be asked to help Bob raise public awareness about third world debt and poverty.

    For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set. Then all of a sudden they hear Arnold Layne and they flip all over again.

    Each small candle lights a corner of the darkWhen the wheel of pain stops turning And the branding iron stops burningWhen the children can be children When the desperados weaken When the tide rolls into greet themAnd the natural law of science Greets the humble and the mighty And a billion candles burning Lights the dark side of every human mind

    In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustrations by Nadine. They asked if I would set it to music.

    There are elements that were pure invention on my part.

    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.

    In the article, they note that Waters' music recalls the lush, hyper-Romantic sound of opera composers like Puccini. He is definitely an inspiration, ... After all, his opera 'Tosca' takes place in a police state.


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