Top 91 Quotes About Pink Floyd: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Pink Floyd

#1. I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd ... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

Jonathan Meades

#2. On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Corey Feldman

#3. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

#4. I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

Al Jourgensen

#5. I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

David Gilmour

#6. there are only so many times you can listen to the guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" without going a little numb yourself,

John Seabrook

#7. If the Pink Floyd and hashish expand my mind much more,
I'm going to need a larger head!

Sienna McQuillen

#8. Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.

Jeremy Enigk

#9. The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#10. I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.

Arjen Anthony Lucassen

#11. It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.

Mike Romano

#12. Pink Floyd in The 60s.
Piper at The Gates of Dawn (1967)
Singles and B-sides, outtakes
A Saucerful of Secrets
More
Ummagumma
Zabriskie Point (recorded Dec. 69)
Pretty damned impressive!

Sienna McQuillen

#13. As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

Klaus Schulze

#14. Sienna's Pick for Best Pink Floyd Combined Song and Album Title Ever:
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict," Ummagumma

Sienna McQuillen

#15. We plan on delivering our baby to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's The Wall while simultaneously watching The Wizard of Oz. If this kid works with us, we guarantee your minds will be blown! The

Amy Poehler

#16. I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

David Gilmour

#17. One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Dave Mustaine

#18. 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.

David Gilmour

#19. I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Dave Navarro

#20. I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn't tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I've never liked stadiums.

Boz Burrell

#21. Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.

Josh Silver

#22. I felt like the girl who showed up at a formal dinner party in jeans and a Pink Floyd T-shirt. Probably 'cause I did that once.

Darynda Jones

#23. There's someone in my head and it's not me. PINK FLOYD

Marcus Chown

#24. The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

Sabrina Carpenter

#25. Speaking of music, we will arrive with our own. We plan on delivering our baby to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's The Wall while simultaneously watching The Wizard of Oz. If this kid works with us, we guarantee your minds will be blown!

Amy Poehler

#26. I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Ted Cruz

#27. Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

Ozzy Osbourne

#28. I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

Steven Price

#29. Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

David Gilmour

#30. Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

Tom Stoppard

#31. The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

David Gilmour

#32. Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.

Polly Samson

#33. When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Robert Smith

#34. I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

Gary Cherone

#35. 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.

David Gilmour

#36. Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

Mark Salling

#37. The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Toni Tennille

#38. My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

Pauley Perrette

#39. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.

Lev Grossman

#40. If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

Michael Angarano

#41. '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.

David Gilmour

#42. When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

Rick Wakeman

#43. In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

Tom Stoppard

#44. So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

DJ Spooky

#45. Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition?

Jon Stewart

#46. Lots of people say they've talked to dragons, but it's very hard to verify. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after

Lev Grossman

#47. Music social foul: no singing a song when another song is playing.
Double music social foul: don't ever fucking sing anything while Pink Floyd is playing. What's wrong with you?

Roan Parrish

#48. There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.

Roger Waters

#49. There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

Nick Mason

#50. For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.

Jake Epstein

#51. You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

John Lydon

#52. I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

Jim Butcher

#53. If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

Michael Palin

#54. I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

Phil Anselmo

#55. Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!

Pink Floyd

#56. Was it love or was it the idea of being in love?

Pink Floyd

#57. CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE REALITY OF LIFE AS IT GOES ON BEFORE YOU AND WITH YOU, AND AS YOU GO ON AS PART OF IT? OR NOT? BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T YOU STAND ON SQUARE ONE, UNTIL YOU DIE.

Roger Waters

#58. Epic is a word we often hear overused these days.
Epic is Echoes or the guitar solo in Comfortably Numb.
THAT is Epic.

Sienna McQuillen

#59. All middle men are bad.

Syd Barrett

#60. Arnold Layne,
Don't do it again!

Pink Floyd

#61. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Pink Floyd

#62. Remember when you were young?
You shone like the Sun ...

Pink Floyd

#63. What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

Roger Waters

#64. Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me

Pink Floyd

#65. 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.

David Gilmour

#66. I'm full of dust and guitars...

Syd Barrett

#67. I'm giving Zabriskie Point 6 of 10 Sienna Stars, the same as More.

Sienna McQuillen

#68. Did You Exchange A Walk On Part In The War For A Lead Role In A Cage?

Pink Floyd

#69. Have You Got It Yet?

Syd Barrett

#70. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd

#71. Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

Pink Floyd

#72. I wish I weren't single now;
I need someone to lick me back to form.

Pink Floyd

#73. Long you live and high you'll fly, and smiles you'll give, tears you'll cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be

Pink Floyd

#74. I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Roger Waters

#75. Syd always gets in there.

David Gilmour

#76. I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...

Pink Floyd

#77. There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Pink Floyd

#78. The child is grown, the dream is gone

Pink Floyd

#79. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I.

Pink Floyd

#80. I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life.

Pink Floyd

#81. Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?

Pink Floyd

#82. One of These Days I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces.

Pink Floyd

#83. The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think,
Oh, and by the way,
which one's Pink?

Pink Floyd

#84. Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else here
Feel the way I do

Pink Floyd