David Gilmour famous quotes

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
-- David Gilmour

#Hendrix

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Couple #Thinking #Guitar

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Fall #Guitar #Drug

I’m not interested in teaching books by women
-- David Gilmour

#Book #Teaching #Not Interested

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

#Song #Cds #Why Not

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.
-- David Gilmour

#Player #Guitar #Style

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Falling In Love #Fall #Way

These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
-- David Gilmour

#Thinking #Play #Ideas

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

#Mean #Frustration #Inability

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
-- David Gilmour

#Musical #Partners

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and its usually - mostly - the first take thats the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
-- David Gilmour

#Play #Finding Yourself #Firsts

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.
-- David Gilmour

#Philosophical #Responsibility #People

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

#Mother #Heart #Thinking

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

#Crazy #America #Giving

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

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.
-- David Gilmour

#People #Worry #Trying

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Believe #Boys

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

#Want #Members

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Play #Sound #Way

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

#Guitar #Voice #Wells

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

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Guitar #Approach

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

#Moderation #Live By

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.
-- David Gilmour

#Thinking #Play #Guitar

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?
-- David Gilmour

#Ideas #House #Listening

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
-- David Gilmour

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Feedback

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

#Idiot #Gang #Live And Let Live

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

#Atheist #Afterlife #Belief

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

#Artist #Expectations #Different

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Jobs #People #Chinese

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.)
-- David Gilmour

#Home #Waiting #Illusion

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Artist #Games #Trying

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

#Interpretation #Spoil #Limitation

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.
-- David Gilmour

#Different #Pieces #Lovers

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

#Guitar #Records #Helping

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
-- David Gilmour

#Running #Monday #Lying

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.
-- David Gilmour

#People #Concerts #Please