Pink Floyd Quotes
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I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.
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I never collected cars as a financial thing; I wanted to go racing, so I chose the cars I wanted to go racing with. Like the Ferrari 250 GTO. I bought it because it absolutely fulfilled everything I wanted from a car.
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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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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You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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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.
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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.
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There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.
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Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
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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.
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I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
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It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.
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I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
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The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
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There's no way out of here.
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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
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The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.
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Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.
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The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is to tour, and then you're revisiting history. Maybe it's better to leave it, if you see what I mean.
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It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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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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There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.