Pink Floyd Quotes
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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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Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try.
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
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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.
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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
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...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.
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I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."
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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.
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Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
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I’m not anything that you think I am.
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I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.
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I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
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One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
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It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
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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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I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.
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Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
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Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
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Life is long. But it goes fast.
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Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.
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I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
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In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show.
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I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.