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Syd was a genius. But I wouldn't want to go back to playing Interstellar Overdrive for hours and hours.

— Roger Waters

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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)

All that's to come, and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

"Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War."

We've got the recording side together and not the playing side.

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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