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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."
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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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.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
Life is long. But it goes fast.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd -
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
We don't need no thought control.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd