37 Famous Quotes By David Gilmour That Will Make You Dance Up A Storm
...the second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.
I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.
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.
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.
'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 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.
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 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.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
When a woman tells you she's had a dream about you, you know what's going on, don't you? It means she likes you. It's her way of telling you that you're on her mind. Really on her mind.
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.
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.
I had a girlfriend once. All we ever talked about was our relationship. That's what we did instead of having one.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.
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 love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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.
