Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by David Gilmour
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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 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.
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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 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.
'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 love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
God created a system which gave us freewill.
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.
I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
There is irreducible chance in the universe.
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.
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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.
I’m not interested in teaching books by women.
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.
Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
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.
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
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.
It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.
There's no way out of here.
You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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.
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.
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.
I tend to jot down music.
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.
How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
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.
I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.
Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.
Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
Make life an art rather than art from life.
I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
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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