Pink Floyd Quotes
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I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.
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Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
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It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
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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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I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.
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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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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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Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
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I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
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I like songs that are simple.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?
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All middle men are bad.
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Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
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I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.