Top 66 David Gilmour Quotes
#1. I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
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#2. It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
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#4. Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.
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#5. I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
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#8. The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
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#9. Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
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#10. It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
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#11. It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
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#13. I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
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#14. Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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#15. I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
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#16. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
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#17. I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.
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#18. It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.
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#19. I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.
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#20. The second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.
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#21. Love affairs that start in blood tend to end up in blood.
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#22. I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.
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#23. I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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#24. I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.
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#25. We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
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#27. The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
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#28. I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
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#29. You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
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#30. The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.
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#31. I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.
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#32. She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.
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#33. That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor.
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#34. Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
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#35. It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.
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#36. I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
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#37. Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
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#39. I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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#40. Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing ... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
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#41. I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
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#42. No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
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#43. It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
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#44. The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on ... does that happen today?
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#45. That's the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there's somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I've arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There's only a succession of waitings until you go home.)
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#46. I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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#47. But you, your life, it's just starting, it's all ahead of you. It's yours to throw away.
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#48. I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have.
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#49. I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
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#50. The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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#51. I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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#52. It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
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#53. I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.
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#54. When a woman tells you she's had a dream about you, you know what's going on, don't you? It means she likes you. It's her way of telling you that you're on her mind. Really on her mind.
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#55. I had a girlfriend once. All we ever talked about was our relationship. That's what we did instead of having one.
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#56. We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.
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#57. Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
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#58. I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.
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#59. When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.
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#60. I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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#61. Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
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#62. I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
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#63. I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
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#64. Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know ... live and let live.
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#65. How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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#66. If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
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