Pink Floyd Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.
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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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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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There is irreducible chance in the universe.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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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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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.