David Gilmour Quotes

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

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

There's no way out of here.

You don't want to believe everything you hear.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

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

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

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.

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.

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.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.

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

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.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

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.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

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.

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

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

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

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