David Gilmour
For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.Collection: Years
If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.Collection: Sound
I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.Collection: Children
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.Collection: Football
Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.Collection: Records
I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Children
I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.Collection: Night
Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.Collection: Years
I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Motivation
I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.Collection: Sports
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.Collection: Crazy
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.Collection: Mother
Where would rock and roll be without feedback?Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: Book
I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Song
I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.Collection: Years
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.Collection: Vocabulary
I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.Collection: Writing
Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.Collection: Visualization
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Thinking
People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.Collection: Speak English
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.Collection: Musical
People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.Collection: Teenage
I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Thinking
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.Collection: Christian
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?Collection: Song
It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?Collection: Tough
I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.Collection: Thinking
I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.Collection: Home
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.Collection: Thinking
I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.Collection: Thinking
Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?Collection: School
I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.Collection: Technology
Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.Collection: Names
I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.Collection: Airplane
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.Collection: Artist
I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.Collection: Thinking
I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.Collection: Art
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.Collection: People
Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.Collection: Mean
The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.Collection: Independent
To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.Collection: Groups