We played small auditoriums for entranced audiences, and there was a wonderful sense of communion. The very early days of Pink Floyd were magical.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 talks about What God Wants", a 1993 interview - ( ).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." They’re manifestations of the insecurities of the Muslim and Christian communities. 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 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.You either blow your brains out or get on with something." Asked what his artistic purpose was: "There is no purpose.George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is a British musician who was for a long period the bass player, primary songwriter and one of the primary vocalists (along with David Gilmour) for the rock band Pink Floyd. 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? Happiness resides where we are not lost in the solitary dream. I think happiness resides where we understand someone else's point of view and needs. I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political. And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun. You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. There is nothing else that is important at all. In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. This page has been listed as needing cleanup since. You should also check this article's talk page to see if the person who added this message left an explanation there. Please review Wikiquote:Templates, especially the standard format of people articles, to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality.
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