Pink Floyd Quotes
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Ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end.
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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.
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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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But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, 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.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want.
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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.
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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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How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
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I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
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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.
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There is irreducible chance in the universe.
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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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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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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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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.
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
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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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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.