Pink Floyd Quotes
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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 like songs that are simple.
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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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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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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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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'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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All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
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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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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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I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
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These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
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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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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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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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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 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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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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I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
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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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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
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How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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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.