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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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
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.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd
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There's no way out of here.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
Richard Wright Pink Floyd -
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd