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Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

David Gilmour

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For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.
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I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
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How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.
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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've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
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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 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 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.
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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 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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I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school I played football after school.
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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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It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
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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 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.
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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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