David Gilmour
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.Collection: Music
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.Collection: Communication
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.Collection: Religion
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.
If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.
I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.Collection: Jobs
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.Collection: Heart
She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.Collection: Oxygen
It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.Collection: Worry
That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)Collection: Home
I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.Collection: Baby
Make life an art rather than art from life.Collection: Art
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.Collection: Fall
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.Collection: Expression
It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.Collection: Falling In Love
How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?Collection: Determined
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.Collection: Running
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.Collection: Philosophical
Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!Collection: Hendrix
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.Collection: Practice
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.Collection: Artist
Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.Collection: Idiot
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.Collection: Thinking
I’m not interested in teaching books by women.Collection: Real
Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.Collection: Bait
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.Collection: Player
It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.Collection: Play
There's no way out of here.Collection: Way
You don't want to believe everything you hear.Collection: Believe
There is irreducible chance in the universe.Collection: Chance