David Gilmour Quotes
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Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
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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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Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
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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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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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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'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 find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
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There's no way out of here.
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The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
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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.
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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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I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.
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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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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.