David Gilmour Quotes
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You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.
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Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.
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Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
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It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.
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I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
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The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
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I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
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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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There's no way out of here.
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I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
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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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I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.
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People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.
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If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.
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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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I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.
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Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
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People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
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Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.