David Gilmour Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.
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A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
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I tend to jot down music.
