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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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
There is irreducible chance in the universe.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
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.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
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.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
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.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
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.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
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.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
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.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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You take the risk of being rejected.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
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.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
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.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
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.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd