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I tend to jot down music.
There's no way out of here.
Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
Make life an art rather than art from life.
There is irreducible chance in the universe.
God created a system which gave us freewill.
I’m not interested in teaching books by women.
You don't want to believe everything you hear.
Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.
It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?
I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.
It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.
How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.
I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.
Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
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.
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
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.
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.
I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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'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.