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

Pink Floyd subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)/Wish You Were Here, Animals (Pink Floyd album)/Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut (album)/The Final Cut. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of popular music; as of 2013, they have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with them again.

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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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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.

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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

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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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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 free.

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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.

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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.

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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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