David Gilmour Quotes
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You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
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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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I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.
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I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.
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I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
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I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.
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Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
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I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.
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I’m not interested in teaching books by women.
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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.
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Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.
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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 has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
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I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.
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These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
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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.
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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
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I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.