Roger Waters Quotes

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• 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.

  Roger Waters

  Life, Long, Giving

  Song: Breathe

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• ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

  Roger Waters

  Death, Ashes, Ends

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• This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

  Roger Waters

  People, Enemy, Population

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

  Roger Waters

  Dark, Moon, Matter

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• Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

  Roger Waters

  Dark, Light, Corners

  Song: Each Small Candle

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

  Roger Waters

  Competition, Losing

  87 Copy quote

• All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

  Roger Waters

  Popular Song

  Song: Breathe

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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

  Artist, Blessing, People

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• Life is long. But it goes fast.

  Roger Waters

  Long, Life Is

  Song: Hello

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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

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.

  Roger Waters

  Religious, Brother, Wall

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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

  Learning, Journey, Addiction

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• How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

  Roger Waters

  Meat, Pudding, Dark Sarcasm

  Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

  67 Copy quote

• All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

  Roger Waters

  Hate, Fighting, Dark

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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

  Communication, Technology, Culture

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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

  Life, Running, Time

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• 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.

  Roger Waters

  Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out

  "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

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• We don't need no thought control.

  Roger Waters

  Needs

  "Another Brick in theWall (Part 2)" (song) (1979)

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• Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

  Roger Waters

  Envy, Hopeful

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• All in all you're just another brick in the wall

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Expression, Bricks

  Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

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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

  Moving, Important, Articles

  "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.

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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

  Stars, Wall, Pain

  Song: Each Small Candle

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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

  Light, Shining, Darkness

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• That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Sgt Pepper

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• Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

  Roger Waters

  Home

  Song: Home

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