Latest David Gilmour Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

• People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

  David Gilmour

  Teenage, People, Rude

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Brain, Never Quit

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Speak English, People, Singing

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

  David Gilmour

  Football, School, Play

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

  David Gilmour

  Sports, Stuff, Watching Sports

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

  David Gilmour

  School, Kids, Rotten

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.

  David Gilmour

  School, Support, Rotten

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

  David Gilmour

  Airplane, Stuff

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I tend to jot down music.

  David Gilmour

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

  David Gilmour

  Bait, Breaths

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.

  David Gilmour

  Years, Ideas, Hands

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

  David Gilmour

  Vocabulary, Musical, Use

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

  David Gilmour

  Ideas, Use, I Can

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  David Gilmour

  Home, Classical Music, Pops

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

  David Gilmour

  Groups, Honest, Being Honest

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

  David Gilmour

  Christian, Church, England

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.

  David Gilmour

  People, Finding Yourself, Band

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• You don't want to believe everything you hear.

  David Gilmour

  Believe, Want

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Home, Potters, Littles

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

  David Gilmour

  Children, Couple, Home

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

  David Gilmour

  Writing, Difficult, Really Happy

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

  David Gilmour

  Tough, Knows, Happy Music

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

  David Gilmour

  Expression, Moments

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Song, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com