David Gilmour Quotes
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You shout in your sleep. Perhaps the price is just too steep. Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test? You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart. Just one man beneath the sky, Just two ears, just two eyes.
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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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God created a system which gave us freewill.
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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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Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to.
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Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way.
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No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
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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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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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The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
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You find your eyes are growing moist. All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.
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I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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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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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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Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
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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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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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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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I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. 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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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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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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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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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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The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.