Pink Floyd Quotes
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.
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I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
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And who knows which is which and who is who.
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I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.
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For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
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Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.
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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.
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I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
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I tend to jot down music.
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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.
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Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
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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.
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The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
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And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
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And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
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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.
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The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
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Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
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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.
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I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.
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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.
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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.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.