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And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.
Richard Wright Pink Floyd
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When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
Richard Wright Pink Floyd -
I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.
Richard Wright Pink Floyd -
The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd