David Gilmour Quotes
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Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
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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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Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
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I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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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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I’m not interested in teaching books by women.
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.
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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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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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How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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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.
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Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.
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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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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.