Roger Waters Quotes

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Making music is fantastic.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more of a solitary activity or a lonelier job, but if you then write a film that gets made and goes out into the world, it kind of flies away from you. It's not yours anymore.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and taking a lot of joy in that, as opposed to allowing myself to be transported by the work of my fellow musicians.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.

When things get tough... Make good art.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.