David Gilmour Quotes

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.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

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.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

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

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

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

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

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.

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

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

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

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.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

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

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

I tend to jot down music.

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

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.

It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.

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

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'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

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.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

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

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

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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

I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.

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

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

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

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

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

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

Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.