Pink Floyd Quotes
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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.
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You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.
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You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
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We don't need no thought control.
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This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
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It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
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Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen.
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The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.
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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
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All middle men are bad.
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I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock.
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
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Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.
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If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.