British Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Philosophy is for the few.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.