David Gilmour Quotes

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

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

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

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

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.

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.

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 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.