Roger Waters Quotes

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.” “Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.

Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.