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Letter "R" » Roger Waters Quotes
«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.»
Author: Roger Waters
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«Each small candle lights a corner of the darkWhen the wheel of pain stops turning And the branding iron stops burningWhen the children can be children When the desperados weaken When the tide rolls into greet themAnd the natural law of science Greets the humble and the mighty And a billion candles burning Lights the dark side of every human mind»
Author: 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.»
Author: Roger Waters
«Who is the strongest, who is the best, who holds the aces, the East or the West. This is the crap our children are learning.»
«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.»
Author: Roger Waters
«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.»
Author: Roger Waters
«Is gentleness too much for usShould gentleness be filed along with empathyWe feel for someone else's childEvery time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrongSomeone else's child dies and equities in defence riseAmerica, America, please hear us when we callYou got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustleYou got Atticus FinchYou got Jane RussellYou got freedom of speechYou got great beaches, wildernesses and mallsDon't let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all upFor you and the rest of the world»
Author: Roger Waters
«I confess I've never felt like a passenger.»
Author: Roger Waters
«I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.»
Author: Roger Waters
«All my life, ... I have been preoccupied with the great tragedy of losing family in wars. The pain of losing a parent or a child in (an act of) violence that is purposefully and directly generated by political forces is in a certain way harder to bear than if someone dies in, say, an accident. The death feels more preventable.»
Author: Roger Waters
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