“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

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English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd 1943

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