Pink Floyd Quotes
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The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.
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I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
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I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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Our vision is that the service providers at the beach will become ambassadors for downtown businesses. There will be no effort to contract with service providers that directly compete with downtown businesses.
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It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
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I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
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That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.
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By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
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I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.
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Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned.
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And who knows which is which and who is who.
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We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.
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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.
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It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics - about whatever they're about.
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
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The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.