Pink Floyd The Wall quotes

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From "The Trial"
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View Quote "Mother": [lyrics] Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you.Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, oooooh babe,Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall.

View Quote Groupie: [While Pink watches TV, ignoring her] Oh, my God. What a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars? [Touches guitars] God. This place is bigger than our whole apartment. [Pause] You like the tube, huh? [Pause] Can I get a drink of water? Can I get you a drink of water? [Goes into the bathroom] Oh, wow! Look at this tub! Wanna take a bath? [Comes back out] What are you watching? [Her voice begins echoing and fading] Hello? Hello? Are you feeling okay?

View Quote Hotel Manager: [Outraged by the condition of Pink's room] An asthmatic?

View Quote Pink's Manager: He's an artist! [Stuffs cash into hotel manager's pockets, then begins slapping Pink] He's coming around! There, you see! How do you feel? [Directs roadies as they dress the barely-conscious Pink and drag him out of hotel room, down the hall, and into a limousine, which will take him to the concert hall].

View Quote Pink's Manager: [Discovers Pink's hotel room trashed, while Pink, who is due to perform, is unconscious] **** me! He's gone completely around the bleedin' twist! [to Pink] You vicious bastard, you never did like me, did you? [Inaudibly, continunes to harangue the unconscious Pink as the medical team attempts to revive him] The boy's an asthmatic.

View Quote [Pink is playing the piano, ignoring his wife]
Pink's Wife: [muffled, slowly growing more distinct] Hello? Hello? Is there anybody in there?
[Pink finally looks up]
Pink's Wife: Do you remember me? I'm the one from the registry [sic] office. (A register office in the UK is where couples can get married without any religious ceremony)

View Quote "An acre is the area of a rectangle whose length is…."

View Quote "What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody! [Classmates laugh]
The laddie reckons himself a poet!
[Classmates laugh]
[Reads poem from Pink's little black book] Money, /
Get back /
I'm all right, Jack /
Keep your hands off my stack.

[Classmates laugh] New car /
Caviar /
Four-star daydream /
Think I'll buy me a football team.

[Classmates laugh]
[Slams the book onto Pink's desk]
Absolute rubbish, laddie!
[Whacks him with a ruler, growls]
Get on with your work!
Repeat after me:
"An acre is the area of a rectangle
whose length is one furlong
and whose width is one chain"

View Quote "You! You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!"

View Quote [A phone ringing]

View Quote [singing] Are there any ****s in the theatre tonight? Get 'em up against the wall!That one in the spotlight, he doesn't look right! Get him up against the wall!And that one looks Jewish... and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff raff into the room?That one's smoking a joint! And that one's got spots! If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!

View Quote [singing] Daddy's flown across the oceanLeaving just a memoryA snapshot in the family albumDaddy, what else did you leave for me?Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me?All in all, it was just a brick in the wall.All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

View Quote [singing] I don't need no arms around meAnd I don't need no drugs to calm me.I have seen the writing on the wall.Don't think I need anything at all.No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall.

View Quote [singing] We don't need no educationWe don't need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeacher, leave them kids aloneHey, teachers! leave them kids alone!All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

View Quote But in town it was well known When they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives
Would thrash them within inches of their lives!