By the cold and religious we were taken in hand–shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad. — Roger Waters

I don’t feel as if I’m in competition with myself; not at all. — Roger Waters

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul. — Roger Waters

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark. — Roger Waters

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people’s land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no. — Roger Waters

We’re just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here. — Roger Waters

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

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

How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat? — Roger Waters

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine. — Roger Waters

We don’t need no thought control. — Roger Waters

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

To some extent, ‘The Wall’ is asking the question, ‘Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it’s not going to be handed to you on a plate.’ — Roger Waters

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

No dark sarcasm, in the classroom. — Roger Waters

That’s why I call the show ‘Us & Them,’ because I believe there is no ‘them.’ There’s only ‘us.’ — Roger Waters

Life is long. But it goes fast. — Roger Waters

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

I have no problem with any question. — Roger Waters

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. — Roger Waters

This is how you control your domestic population–by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy. — Roger Waters

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. — Roger Waters

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

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon. — Roger Waters

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

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away. — Roger Waters

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

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

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters

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. — Roger Waters

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. — 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

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind. — Roger Waters

Everybody’s got somewhere they call home. — Roger Waters

I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing. — Roger Waters

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

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. — Roger Waters

And who knows which is which and who is who. — Roger Waters

You take the risk of being rejected. — Roger Waters

What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody! — Roger Waters

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away. — Roger Waters

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