Words matter. These are the best David Gilmour Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
No-one can replace Richard Wright – he was my musical partner and my friend.
I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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 don’t want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
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.
Everything in moderation – that’s what I live by.
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.
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 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 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.
Yes, there’s a lot of the blues in my playing.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
