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""I would like to be remembered as somebody who spoke his truth and stood by it through thick and thin, I PAINT WHAT I SEE."Roger Waters - Uncut Magazine - May 2007
"You could put Elton John, U2 and Madonna on stage with The Who, Sting and Paul McCartney, but without the ‘X’ factor, the concert is merely average. Pink Floyd is the ‘X’ fator. Refrase. Pink Floyd with Roger Waters is the ‘X’ factor
" -Jack Nicholson-Brain damage
"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." -Roger Waters
" Who did what on The Wall album? - "I've read numeuous interviews about this subject and there's been a lot of arguing over the years as to who came up with the idea. It was Roger's idea to have the school kids sing. That was the big deal. The process of adding an extra verse with just the kids singing on their own was obvious. I instinctively put together a rough mix with the new arrangement, but everyone already knew it was the right thing to do. I don't understand what all the fuss was about. Anyone making the record would have done that". "There were some difficult moments, but I don't think there was ever a question of Roger not finishing the album. He's a very strong person. Not easily deterred from his path. If everyone else had walked out, he would still have finished it.""James Guthrie - Pink Floyd Engeneer and Co-producer of The wall album.
" "To say that Roger Waters' creative fire 'burns brightly' is a gross understatement. 'Radiates brilliantly' may be closer to the mark. Face it - Waters is a unique and ground breaking artist who altered the conciousness of an entire generation. It's just that simple. From being a founding member of Pink Floyd and driving force behind arguably the most influencial rock album of all time, "Dark Side of the Moon," to the grand architect of 'The Wall's" massive stage production, Waters has always been an innovator. Not to mention wildly successful. Forget about selling millions of records - his music has changed people's perceptions of reality."
""There's a feeling that i've learned to recognize that says: 'Go to the piano. Take with you a peice of paper. Sit down...' you know, and I do... and then something comes out," says Waters. "But once that something comes out, it's very rare that it's complete." Enter the recording studio. That's the laboratory where inspiration meets magic, transforming Waters into the mad scientist of sound. He turns dials and knobs like an audio Leonardo Da Vinci to reflect the scope of his vision - it's vast.
-Mr. Lee (Artist Profiles 2000)

shine on you crazy diamond
1946-2006
"Replacing Syd as a leader of Pink Floyd was OK, but Syd as a writer was a one-off. I could never aspire to his crazed insights and perceptions. In fact, for a long time I wouldn't have dreamt of claiming any insights whatsoever, But I'd always credit Syd with the connection he made to his personal unconscious and to the collevtive group conscious. It's taken me fifteen years to get wnywhere near there. But what enabled Syd to see things in the way he did? It's like why is 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 course. Tehre's a great sattisfaction to be earned from it, but often it's also a terrible burden" Roger Waters - Interview with Chriss Salewicz, June 1987

Roger Waters subsequently came up with the idea of having the spectrum carried through the inner sleeve design; then on the back cover the rainbow reverts through an inverted prism to reemerge as the original ray of light. Thus fostering a continuous mandalalike effect. This of course is in keeping with the music itself, which begins and ends with the same heartbeet. STORM THORGERSON - PINK FLOYD SLEEVE DESIGNER
"“Roger comes up with the concepts -- he's the preacher of the group and spends more time home writing with Pink Floyd in mind. I know what I give to our sound, and he knows it, too. It's not a question of him forcing his ideas on us. I get my ideas across as much as I want to. They would use more of my music if I wrote it.” "- David Gilmour, 1978
"When David Gilmour and (it seemed at the time) the other members of Pink Floyd decided to continue on without Roger Waters, I, like most other Pink Floyd fans, didn't think much of it. While I couldn't imagine how there could be a Pink Floyd without Roger Waters (Floyd's principal songwriter and lyricist throughout their career), I felt no ill-will toward Mr. Gilmour. After all, he was a member of Pink Floyd for well over a decade prior to Roger Waters' departure. I felt that he and the others had earned the right to continue on as Pink Floyd. Since then, David Gilmour himself has changed this opinion. Gilmour and the new Pink Floyd, Inc. has mounted a campaign with the intent of rewriting history, in an effort to convince all of us that Roger Waters didn't have as much to do with Pink Floyd as history has recorded. For those of us who were there, and who grew up listening to Pink Floyd, it's simple to separate the truth from the bullshit. But for the younger generations who were not there, it's very easy to believe that David Gilmour was the primary architect behind Pink Floyd, and not Roger Waters. After all, there is evidence, right? And besides, it was Gilmour's voice on most of those old Pink Floyd songs, right? Sorry. It was Gilmour singing Waters' lyrics. This brings me to my point, and the impetus for the creation of this web page. It's one thing for David Gilmour to continue on as Pink Floyd; even when the other members of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, have very little to do with it (and Pink Floyd as a group no longer exists); even when it takes scores of studio musicians and producers to even approximate the sound and soul which Pink Floyd lost when Roger Waters left. That I could deal with, and would not begrudge Mr. Gilmour. After all, there's a lot of money to be made with the name “Pink Floyd.” I even ignored his ongoing spat with Roger Waters. The implication that David Gilmour and Bob Ezrin try to leave with the public is either 1) that Waters and Gilmour were an equal songwriting team, or, worse, 2) that Roger Waters was little more than a supporting musician for David Gilmour, even though long-time fans know that, if anything, it was the other way around. David Gilmour had been the primary singer in the early days, but after Dark Side of the Moon, Roger Waters and Gilmour began to split the vocal chores fairly evenly (though nearly 100% of all lyrics, and 80% of all music recorded by Pink Floyd was written by Roger Waters). There are many examples of David Gilmour's attempt to write Roger Waters out of the history of Pink Floyd, even as the new Pink Floyd, Inc. roams the countryside making millions of dollars performing Roger Waters' material. While I had originally intended to present the evidence of these lies and misinformation, in the words of Gilmour himself, to the general public, in an effort to help younger and newer fans of Pink Floyd understand that they are being mislead by a faceless corporation that is masquerading as a once influential rock band. I realized, however, that the first article listed above says all that needs to be said. The others support my contention that it was Roger Waters, and not David Gilmour, who was the primary architect behind all the wonderful music that we call Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is one of the most influential guitarists in rock and roll history, and is the author of some of the most tasteful guitar work to ever be recorded. But beyond that, and the work he and dozens of writers and musicians have created in the years since Roger Waters' departure, he has no claim to the legacy that is Pink Floyd. I believe that Mr. Gilmour has confused his court-given legal right to use the Pink Floyd name with the right to claim the credit for all of Roger Waters' incredible work. I do not begrudge him the use of the name Pink Floyd. But when he pretends that it was he, and not Roger Waters, who created all that influential music, anyone who was there during the sixties and the seventies has a moral obligation to step forward and declare “That man is a liar.” - Wicasta Lovelace
"I don't think there was ever a question of Roger not finishing the album, He's very strong person. Not easily deterred from his path. If everyone else had walked out, he would still have finished it" -
James Guthrie - Pink Floyd Engineer and Record Producer
"We were all very, very happy to have a driving force like Roger who wanted to push for these concepts." David Gilmour - Guitar World, 2003
On The Run - "We'd just got this synthesizer, a briefcase model EMS-1, and in the lid there was a little sequencer thing, I was playing with the sequencer device attachment, and came up with this sound, which is the basic soundof it. Roger sort of heard it, came over and started playing with it, too - Then he acrually put in the notes that we made .... it was his sequence, that "de-di-doo-de-di-dii, whatever it was, he made that sequence up." David Gilmour US Radio 1984
"Syd wrote our songs, was the frontman and our greatest talent. After he left, we followed Syd's approach for quite some time. It took a while before Roger started to write some songs. Up until "Dark Side Of The Moon" we were a democratic band despite the fact that Roger did most of the labour. After five years he was ready to create a concept album".
"Since I never created any songs, I had a very comfortably place. It was easy for me to adapt to the changes in the band. I just followed the strange creative influence of the band. Up til today I'm more interested in the production process as in being a drummer. The idea of drumming with somebody else never occured to me, not even with Syd".
"David needed a fair amount of time to write a song, Roger didn't. Roger was more proactive then we the rest were. He pushed us to become productive, David didn't see a reason why to rush things".
NIck Mason - 21 May 2006 - Tages Spiegel, Germany
"Roger who was maybe the most dominant membr of the band those days could always give us the starting push. That's how he could become the ironhanded leader of the band. Many people think that he is a real dictator who always does serious things, always precise, never smiles, but in reality he is the most humorous guy I've ever met in my whole life".
Nick Mason - EXIT Magazine, Hungary - March, 2006
Melody Maker friend Karl Dallas overheard Roger Waters instructing the crew' "I want the smoke to begin as much smoke as you can give me. I don't want the audience to see the pig until the loud solo from Dave that comes after the verse....."
"Joe Boyd recognized driving bass style, with its trademark octave swoops as a major component of the PF sound. equally important to the Floyd's early success, the basist was himself driven: It was he who assumed responsibility of organizing the group;s activity and of serving as their articulate press spokesman.""Peter Jenner does credit Roger for being "incredibly hard working and committed and without question "the strongest personality in the band" the bassist was largely motivated by a desire to get the whole band organized and make it more managable"June Bolan - Pink Floyd secretary We all thought with Syd gone the Floyd will fall apart' they didn't - at all, Roger kept it all together. He was very much a motivating force.""It took enormous amount of energy for Roger to get that together" Sumi Jenner agrees, and he deserves credit fo it. From then on, he always thought of the band as his baby. "Yet even June couldn't find it in herself ot feel about David like I feel about Syd . I don't feel that specialness at all. He's lovley, a nice person, but he doesn't have that certain "je ne sois quot"