Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned Roger Waters More Quotes by Roger Waters More Quotes From Roger Waters 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 articles important moving 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 falling-in-love song book 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 cat music fun 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 doe country moving I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul. Roger Waters istanbul fans world 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 song father kids You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else. Roger Waters names writing song 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 teenage queens heart My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well. Roger Waters eye mother father You take the risk of being rejected. Roger Waters rejected risk I have no problem with any question. Roger Waters no-problem problem 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 criminals rights justice 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 pieces done play 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 fans people thinking 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 tvs trying watches I confess I've never felt like a passenger. Roger Waters passengers felt When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. Roger Waters guitar firsts I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. Roger Waters english-music five war 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 brave-new-world running fall 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 blair israel play
