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Roger Waters

73 quotes

“Have you heard It was on the news Your child can read you like a bedtime story Like a magazine Like a has-been out to grass Like afternoon T.V. Why is my life going by so fast?”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hello (I Love You)" was a created as a musical collaboration between Howard Shore and Waters for the film The Last Mimzy (2007). At PR-inside, Waters is quoted as saying: "I think together we've come up with a song that…
“Life is long but it goes fast. The kids will have to separate Their future from our past.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Jewish lobby is extraordinary powerful here and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry and in rock’n roll as they say.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The Israeli Rabbinate believes non-Jews exist] to serve them ... they believe that the Indigenous people of the region that they kicked off the land in 1948 and have continued to kick off the land ever since are sub-human.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would not have played for the Vichy government in occupied France in WWII, would not have played in Berlin either during this time. Many people did, back in the day. There were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time it’s the Palestinians being murdered.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extracts from an interview for CounterPunch, as cited in "Roger Waters Compares Israeli Policy to Nazi Germany, Slams 'Powerful Jewish Lobby'" Haaretz (9 December 2013)
“The antisemitism smear sword that was wielded at the behest of the Israeli government, specifically aimed at Jeremy Corbyn because he was left wing and he might turn into a political leader on the left in the United Kingdom who would actually stand up for human rights in general but specifically the rights of working people to represent themselves and have unions.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Let's Talk It Over, a monthly online debate, as cited in "Roger Waters defends Ken Loach", The Jewish Chronicle (17 March 2021)
“It's about a bunch of Europeans back in the middle of the 19th century deciding that they were going to take over this piece of land, and kick out anybody that lived there and take it over for themselves and their own little cabal.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute interview (July 2022), as cited in "Roger Waters In His Own Words" Anti-Defamation League (24 May 2023 update)
“The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms [...] [A]ttempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1980. My parents fought the Nazis in World War II, with my father paying the ultimate price.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a statement on Facebook & Instagram (26 May 2023), as cited in "I'm no antisemite, tearful Roger Waters tells protesters", The Times (30 May 2023)
“You [Christian Wakeford] were making s*** up because you were told to by your masters in the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv because of this hate. This hate is being organised from Israel. And I’m not afraid to say it because I know Christian Wakeford, that what I'm saying is not a lie.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments at the O2 venue during a performance (6 June 2023), as cited in "Roger Waters claims 'cripple' Labour MP is working for 'his masters in Tel Aviv'" The Jewish Chronicle (7 June 2023)
“[Regarding the spate of High School shootings of 1999] in the Colorado shootings, the media seemed to change their tack a bit. Though they attached ghoulishly to it, covered it 24 hours a day and even gave it a logo like 'Horror in the Rockies', they did address issues of alienation and pain rather than just saying, 'oh, these aberrant teen-agers have to be stamped out.' After denigrating self-help ideas for the last 20 years, the media are beginning to look at the psychology and not just the police work.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: USA Today, 1999
“I like to think oysters transcend national barriers, Adrian. - Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii video, in an interview with director Adrian Maben.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1943) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the Los Angeles performance of "The Wall" at the Los Angeles Arena, California, February 1980
“Who's got my pig?”
Roger Waters (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine talking about his father who was killed in WWII (30 September 2010).
“[Asked if he has ever changed his mind on a topic.] Yes, an article I wrote about three months ago calling Vladimir Putin a gangster… That may have been unfair [...] It may be that he's leading his country to the benefit of all of the people of Russia.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roger Waters: ‘I called Putin a gangster – that may have been unfair’" The Telegraph (8 February 2023)
“Francesca Albanese is the good”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" reel on his official Facebook, www.facebook.com/rogerwaters/videos/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/1395007958135162/ (January 27, 2025)
“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 [H.W.] 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 (born 1943) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roger Waters talks about What God Wants", a 1993 interview - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgsTVIsuXVg)
“Earlier this year we went skiing and I was in a shop, paying a bill and there was a woman standing there whom I knew slightly. I was waiting for my bill and she was buying something, a tea strainer. Quite suddenly she said to me, 'Where was your Father killed?'. I was very surprised and blurted out 'Oh Anzio'. Now this is a woman of about my age, so she's 40-ish. She said, 'My Father was killed in the war'. Apparently somebody lent her a copy of The Final Cut and she had listened to the whole thing and she had found it very moving. In fact she said it had moved her to tears. She told me this, standing in the shop, with some effort I suspect, and I remember thinking: That's enough really. It doesn't matter if the Americans don't buy it.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karl Dallas Interview, 1984
“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. So, when I left Pink Floyd, I guess I had two, no three choices open to me: Not to do it anymore, which is daft as I was writing songs, although I suppose I could have written for other people, but I like making records; so I could either do it as Roger Waters or I could have got together with other people and said hey, why don't we start a band? But my view of bands had been jaundiced slightly by my previous experience, so I think that was something I never considered.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gold (1992).
“Andrew Lloyd Webber sickens me. He's in your face all the time and what he does is nonsense. It has no value. It is shallow, derivative rubbish, all of it, and it makes me very gloomy. Actually, I've never been to one of his shows but having put that slightly savage joke on the record, I thought I'd better listen to some Andrew Lloyd Webber and I was staying in a rented house in America this summer and the people who owned the house had a whole bunch of his rubbish so I thought I'd listen to Phantom Of The Opera and I put the record on and I was slightly apprehensive. I thought, Christ, I hope this isn't good - or even mediocre. I was not disappointed. Phantom Of The Opera is absolutely fucking horrible from start to finish.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Q magazine (November 1992).
“I could never aspire to Syd's crazed insights and perceptions. In fact for a long time I wouldn't have dreamt of claiming any insights whatsoever. I'll always credit Syd with the connection he made between his personal unconscious and the collective group unconscious. It's taken me 15 years to get anywhere near there. Even though he was clearly out of control when making his two solo albums, some of the work is staggeringly evocative. It's the humanity of it all that's so impressive. It's about deeply felt values and beliefs. Maybe that's what 'Dark Side of the Moon' was aspiring to. A similar feeling.”
Roger Waters (born 1943) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted by Julian Palacios Lost In The Woods (1997).