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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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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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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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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I’m not interested in teaching books by women.
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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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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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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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 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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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 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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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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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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.
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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 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 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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Make life an art rather than art from life.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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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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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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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd