David Gilmour Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I’m not interested in teaching books by women”
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“We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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 mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.”
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“No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.”
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“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and its usually - mostly - the first take thats the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”
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“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.”
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“I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.”
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“It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.”
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“I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.”
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“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.”
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“Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.”
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“Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.”
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“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.”
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“Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.”
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“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.”
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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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“Where would rock and roll be without feedback?”
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“Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.”
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“I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife...”
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“The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.”
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“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.”
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