Roger Waters Quotes

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  I’m sort of obsessed with the idea that religious extremism is a maligned factor in most of our lives.

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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.

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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.

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• I confess I’ve never felt like a passenger.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Roger Waters (10)

Birth:	6th September, 1943
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Composer, Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist.

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