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 More Quotes by David Gilmour More Quotes From David Gilmour I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that! David Gilmour I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination. David Gilmour eye book thinking Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health. David Gilmour bait breaths 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 style guitar player Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them. David Gilmour vocabulary musical use 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 There is irreducible chance in the universe. David Gilmour universe chance 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 listening house ideas I’m not interested in teaching books by women. David Gilmour real teaching book 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 I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. David Gilmour spoil interpretation listeners God created a system which gave us freewill. David Gilmour Everything in moderation - that's what I live by. David Gilmour everything-in-moderation moderation live-by I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. David Gilmour afterlife atheist belief Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great. David Gilmour long ideas thinking I tend to jot down music. David Gilmour I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want. David Gilmour space trying thinking It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice. David Gilmour dice play I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music. David Gilmour classical-music pops home Where would rock and roll be without feedback? David Gilmour feedback rock-and-roll rocks
