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“Are there any paranoids in the audience tonight? (the crowd cheers) Is there anyone who worries about things? (the crowd cheers again) Pathetic. This is for all the weak people in the audience! Is there anyone here who's weak? (the crowd cheers once more) This is for you, it's called Run Like Hell! (the song starts)”

Roger Waters

During the Los Angeles performance of "The Wall" at the Los Angeles Arena, California, February 1980
Miscellaneous

“"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)”

Roger Waters

Variant: "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)

“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

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Music

“"Eclipse" on The Dark Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd, 1973)”

Roger Waters

Variant: "Breathe" on The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd, 1973)

“This is the crap that our children are learningBut ooh, the tide is turning.”

Roger Waters

"The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)", on Radio K.A.O.S. (1987)
Context: Who is the strongest, who is the best
Who holds the aces, the East or the West
This is the crap that our children are learningBut ooh, the tide is turning.

“It's actually quite emotional, standing up here with these three guys after all these years, standing to be counted with the rest of you. Anyway, we're doing this for everyone who's not here, and particulary of course for Syd”

Roger Waters

LIVE 8, Hyde Park, London, July 2005
Music

“Asked what his artistic purpose was: "There is no purpose. We do whatever we do. You either blow your brains out or get on with something."”

Roger Waters

June 1987[citation needed]
Philosophy

“I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political. I think happiness resides where we understand someone else's point of view and needs. Happiness resides where we are not lost in the solitary dream.”

Roger Waters

November 2005[citation needed]
Philosophy

“Syd was a genius. But I wouldn't want to go back to playing Interstellar Overdrive for hours and hours.”

Roger Waters

Q Magazine, November 1992
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett

“"The Powers That Be" on Radio KAOS (Roger Waters, 1987)”

Roger Waters

Variant: "Me Or Him" on Radio KAOS (Roger Waters, 1987)

“The ghosts are walking by my side
I feel their love I feel their pride
For I have built a bridge or two
Bridges between me and you.
Hello I love you.”

Roger Waters

"Hello (I Love You)"

“It's like saying 'Give a man a Les Paul guitar and he becomes Eric Clapton,' you know. It's not true. And give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer, and he doesn't become whoever, you know. He doesn't become us.”

Roger Waters

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Music

“"I’m not a huge practicing Christian myself, but it just staggers me that people who claim to be can stand up and spout – like your president George Bush – can stand up and spout this bullshit about God supporting one side over another in war, which is why I wrote the lyrics of the song "What God Wants": “God wants crusade/God wants Jihad.” Well it may well be that God doesn’t want either of those things. They’re manifestations of the insecurities of the Muslim and Christian communities. I hate when someone uses religion to bolster war in the world: it's extremely disgusting and offensive for me, and for all christians, because that was not what Christ was trying to teach."”

Roger Waters

"Roger Waters talks about What God Wants", a 1993 interview
Philosophy

“What it comes down to for me is: Will the technologies of communication and culture — and especially popular music, which is a vast and beloved enterprise — help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?”

Roger Waters

Penthouse Magazine, September, 1988
Philosophy

“Well, he's schizophrenic. And has been since 1968.”

Roger Waters

Roger Waters, interviewed on Australian radio (1988)

“Oh, they [the Media] definitely don't want to know the real Barrett story… there are no facts involved in the Barrett story so they can make up any story they like, and they do. There's a vague basis in fact: Syd was in the band and he did write the material on the first album, 80% of it, but that's all. It is only that one album, and that's what people don't realise. That first album, and one track on the second. That's all; nothing else.”

Roger Waters

quoted in Lost In The Woods by Julian Palacios, 1997
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett

“"I like to think oysters transcend national barriers, Adrian." - Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii video, in an interview with director Adrian Maben.”

Roger Waters

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