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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!

David Gilmour

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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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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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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.
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Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
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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.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.
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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.
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You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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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.
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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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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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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.
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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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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.
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Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
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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.
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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
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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.
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I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school I played football after school.
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