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ROGER WATERS- "NOTABLE QUOTES AND SHAMELESS FLAMES"
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From Q Magazine, November 1992
With a foreword by Roger Waters
"I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music
since the War. The list of great writers is very, very short but
I am definitely in it. Er, who else is there that's better than
me? I really don't know. Freddie Mercury, maybe..."
IS ROGER THE GLOOMIEST MAN IN ROCK?
ROGER WATERS- "You can't expect me to take a question like that
seriously. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that
it is stupid."
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A FUNERAL FOR "AMUSED TO DEATH"?
ROGER WATERS- "I've been reading the nonsense that's been written
about Amused To Death. Adam Sweeting (music journalist) well,
he's a complete prat. Always was, always will be. Sweeting is not
a nice man. I don't know him but I know him. He says I write
twaddle. He's wrong! He's one taco short of a Mexican meal.
Sweeting is not the only arsehole: there's other cunts like Andy
Gill and Charles Shaar Murray.
Who gives a fuck who they write for when they can't fucking
write? It is extraordinary that Andy Gill and Adam Sweeting and
Charles Shaar Murray didn't notice The Wall. They are supposed to
be music journalists; how could they not have noticed this
extraordinary well constructed, deep and meaningful and moving
and important piece of work? What the fuck's the matter with
these arseholes? And now, with Amused To Death, they've
missed another one, Adam Sweeting and Andy Gill and the other
fucker and all the rest, they should be in hospital. I am
confident that I am really clever and that I am really good at
what I do so I'm not going to have prats like Sweeting and Andy
Gill and Shaar bloody Murray telling me that I'm no good because
they're wrong. Amused To Death is fucking, fucking good. Isn't
it?"
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"THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES"
ROGER WATERS- "I don't want to go back to those times at all.
There wasn't anything 'grand' about it. We were laughable. We
were useless. We couldn't play at all so we had to do something
stupid and 'experimental'."
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RADIO ONE AND ROGER TWO
ROGER WATERS- "Radio One won't play my fucking single (What God
Wants) because they know it's no good. They know it's not as good
as Erasure or Janet fucking Jackson. They know that the British
public shouldn't be listening to it. It makes my blood boil! If
you're not 17 with a baseball hat on back to front, they don't
want to know."
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MOTHER, WILL THEY TRY TO SHAVE ME BALD?
ROGER WATERS- "It was very, very hard work organising that Wall
concert but everyone was fabulous to work with - Bryan Adams, Van
Morrison, Cyndi Lauper, bloody brilliant. All brilliant. Except
for Sinead O'Connor. Oh, God! I have never ever met anybody who
is so self-involved and unprofessional and big-headed and
unpleasant. She is so far up her own bum it's scary. With
The Wall, she was so worried that there weren't any other
(_adopts Irish "brogue"_) 'young people on the show'. I and
everybody else were old farts in her opinion so she was worried
that she was doing something that wasn't 'street' enough. And
because it wasn't 'street' enough, she came up with this
brilliant idea: she said that I should employ Ice-T or one of
those people to re-work one of my songs as a rap number! I am not
joking! And neither was she fucking joking! That's the sad thing
- she was serious! And then a couple of months after the show,
when the record was out, she did an interview on American
television, millions of viewers, and she rubbished the whole
thing, said the Wall concert was a load of wank. I don't give a
fuck what she though about it but she should have kept her
fucking mouth shut because it could only hurt the charity, the
memorial fund and everything that Leonard (Cheshire) had
done. She doesn't understand anything. She's just a silly little
girl. You can't just lie in the corner and shave your bloody head
and stick up your arse and occasionally pull it out to go
(_"brogue"_) 'Oh, I tink this is wrong and dat is wrong' and
burst into tears."
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RANDOM WORDS OF WISDOM
ROGER WATERS- "Rock'n'roll in stadiums is genuinely awful.
These concerts are just like Tupperware parties - held in honour
of the Great God Tupper - with 50,000 people, only they don't buy
Tupperware, they buy hot dogs and T-shirts and occasionally look
up to watch those disgusting video screens that are all out of
sync and make you feel sick and torture you."
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ROGER WATERS- "My one pathetic victory was that they had to put
testicles on the pig. If the pig had been exactly the same as the
pig that I designed, I could have stopped them using it in their
shows. So they put balls on my pig. Fuck them. Gilmour and Mason
now own the name 'Pink Floyd'. They keep it in a box."
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EPILOGUE
"Dark Side Of The Moon was the last willing collaboration: after
that, everything with the band was like drawing a teeth; 10 years
of hanging on to the married name and not having the courage to
get divorced, to let go; 10 years of bloody hell. It was all just
terrible. Awful. Terrible."
-Roger Waters
(Quotes stolen with permisson)
THE END
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