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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright, and guitarist, singer, and songwriter Syd Barrett. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist, and conceptual leader.

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I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

Addiction, Comfortably, Journey, Learning, Painful, Travelled

You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

Dylan, Lennon, Names, Song, World, Writing

We don't need no thought control.

Control, Needs, Thought

We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it. . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.

Bombs, Brother, Nationalistic, Religious, Under, Wall

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Confess, Felt, Like, Passenger, Passengers

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Dark, Forebodings, Head, Moon, Sides

Life is long. But it goes fast.

Fast, Life, Life Is, Long

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.

Done, Fresh, Music, Pieces, Play

. . . why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

Artist, Blessing, Different, People, See, Things

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Dark, Fact, Matter, Moon

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.

Fans, Floyd, Left, People, Thinking, Work

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

Bridges, Mirror, Mirrors, Suspicions, Thinking, Views

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.

Barrels, Fall, Hurled, Pain, Stars, Wall

When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did Exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids.

Children, Derision, Education, Hurt, Kids, Teacher

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.

Country, Doe, Listen, Move, Moving, Way

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

Dollars, Pence, Perfect, Pounds, Shillings

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.

Bored, Cat, Cats, Fun, Music, Smashing

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

Fans, Found, Istanbul, World

I have no problem with any question.

No Problem, Problem, Question

I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

Alien, Amused, Depressing, Finding, Skeletons, Work Out

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