David Gilmour Quotations

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.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

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 mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

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 actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

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 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.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

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

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have.

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 don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.

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 wish Roger absolutely well. But I can't imagine doing more than a one-off with him and the other guys at this point. It's been such a joyful experience working with the team I have now; nothing could make me happier than the situation I'm in. I'm extremely lucky.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

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.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

Any squabble Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention, then it's got to be worthwhile.

A little girl came up to me the other day and said, 'Do you live here?' ... I have a great staff that helps me run the place, but I really love being out on the floor, helping people stock shelves and talking to customers.

I told him, 'This stuff better taste better than it looks, and it better look really good,'

It's a powerful thing, this old Pink Floyd business. Look at all the stories that followed Live 8'Will they get back together? Will they tour together?' It's all so mysterious.

It's an atheistic song, you could say, about how people live on in your dreams and your memories. And that's the only place I can meet up with these people. It's a very sad thing, remembered with joy.

I've had a fantastic time making On an Island and really want to perform tracks from it, along with my more familiar repertoire.

They liked the thought of riding around the countryside dispensing justice under a banyan tree.

I'm very relieved not to be carrying the burden around, the big snail shell. Because it sometimes does feel like a big weight. The pressure of expectation is just too big. The whole Pink Floyd name, carting it around ... I don't want to be there at the moment.

I had a fantastic time. We hadn't played as Pink Floyd in 10 years and hadn't played with Roger in 25. The main thing was obviously the cause, but I was also pleased to get some of that personal, trivial antipathy that's been part of our lives for so long and pack that away. For several days, Roger and I went out together. I'm very pleased that we're now at a point where we can talk.

I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time. But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list.

I do really think it is about as good a piece of work as I have ever done.

All grocery stores used to be closed on Sunday, ... There's the sane world and the insane world - I choose to live in the sane world.