Roger Waters

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1982 age 39

   CreditPink Floyd – The Wall

   CreditPink Floyd – The Wallcomposer

   CreditPink Floyd – The Wallscreenwriter

• MEMichael Ensign1 title
• MMMargery Mason1 title
• PRPenny Rose1 title
• GSGerald Scarfe1 title
• ETEddie Tagoe1 title
• PBPeter Biziou1 title
• AMAlan Marshall1 title
• BHBob Hoskins1 title
• AMAlbert Moses1 title
• JLJames Laurenson1 title

• Asked what his artistic purpose was: "There is no purpose. We do whatever we do. You either blow your brains out or get on with something."

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’m not a huge practicing Christian myself, but it just staggers me that people who claim to be can stand up and spout – like your president George [H.W.] Bush – can stand up and spout this bullshit about God supporting one side over another in war, which is why I wrote the lyrics of the song "What God Wants": "God wants crusade/God wants Jihad." Well it may well be that God doesn’t want either of those things. They’re manifestations of the insecurities of the Muslim and Christian communities. I hate when someone uses religion to bolster war in the world: it's extremely disgusting and offensive for me, and for all christians, because that was not what Christ was trying to teach."

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What it comes down to for me is: Will the technologies of communication and culture — and especially popular music, which is a vast and beloved enterprise — help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The very early days of Pink Floyd were magical. We played small auditoriums for entranced audiences, and there was a wonderful sense of communion. We got overpowered by the weight of success and numbers — not just the money but the size of the audience. I became very disenchanted. I had to make the choice of staying on the treadmill or making the braver decision to travel a more difficult path alone.

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political. I think happiness resides where we understand someone else's point of view and needs. Happiness resides where we are not lost in the solitary dream."

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0

• For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set. Then all of a sudden they hear Arnold Layne and they flip all over again.

  Roger Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0