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I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. -- Roger Waters
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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Did you see the frightened ones,
Did you hear the falling bombs,
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.
Good bye blue skies. -- Roger Waters
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And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole. -- Roger Waters
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You take the risk of being rejected. -- Roger Waters
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What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart? -- Roger Waters
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But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. -- Roger Waters
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Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen -- Roger Waters
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Life is long. But it goes fast. -- Roger Waters
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You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. -- Roger Waters
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money so they say is the root of all evil today -- Roger Waters
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Why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden. -- Roger Waters
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For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no. -- Roger Waters
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Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way -- Roger Waters
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music. -- Roger Waters
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In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE REALITY OF LIFE AS IT GOES ON BEFORE YOU AND WITH YOU, AND AS YOU GO ON AS PART OF IT? OR NOT? BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T YOU STAND ON SQUARE ONE, UNTIL YOU DIE. -- Roger Waters
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No dark sarcasm, in the classroom. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids -- Roger Waters
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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. -- Roger Waters
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This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy. -- Roger Waters
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Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try -- Roger Waters
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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 -- Roger Waters
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul. -- Roger Waters
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By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad. -- Roger Waters
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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all. -- Roger Waters
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I have no problem with any question. -- Roger Waters
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What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody! -- Roger Waters
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Ashes or diamonds
foe or friend
we're all equal in the end -- Roger Waters
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. -- Roger Waters
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There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind. -- Roger Waters
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Everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon -- Roger Waters
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I confess I've never felt like a passenger. -- Roger Waters
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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? -- Roger Waters
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And who knows which is which and who is who -- Roger Waters
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Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home. -- Roger Waters
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I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. -- Roger Waters
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I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all. -- Roger Waters
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There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left. -- Roger Waters
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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. -- Roger Waters
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine. -- Roger Waters