David Gilmour Quotes

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

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.

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.

It’s about the quality of the worry,” I said. “I have happier worries now than I used to.

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’ve never had any religion. I’d prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn’t make myself believe.

That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

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

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

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

‘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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

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.

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

Everything in moderation – that’s what I live by.

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 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.

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.

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.