Pink Floyd Quotes
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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 am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
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I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
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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 don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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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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The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
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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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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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Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned.
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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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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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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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It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
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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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Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.
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'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
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The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.
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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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Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.
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I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!