David Gilmour
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Biography
David Jon Gilmour is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known for being the lead guitarist of the English rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett.
"It's about the quality of the worry,"I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to."
"Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way."
"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."
"Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to."
"He had developed his own limited, or very simple style. He was never very keen on improving himself as a bass player and half the time I would play bass on the records because I would tend to do it quicker. Right back to those early records; I mean, at least half the bass on all recorded output is me anyway. … Rog used to come in and say, "Thank you very much" to me once in a while for winning him bass-playing polls."
"I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!"
"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."
"It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations."
"The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets."
"Where would rock and roll be without feedback?"
"Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!"
"Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live."
"We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine."
"Russia is not full of terrible people. It’s just that their leadership has gone so horribly wrong. ... A lot of the world is reacting in the right way. They are angry and they are frustrated. You can see and hear the frustration in the leaders of the other world’s countries. We can see it in the voice of your president, President Biden. He has let slip a couple of his feelings a couple of times over there. Other world leaders have done the same. And I think there’s a groundswell of opinion worldwide. This sort of thing shouldn’t be able to happen. It shouldn’t be able to be allowed. But we are in a world where still, here we are, a fifth of the way through the 21st century and still this obscene situation can happen. The mind boggles."
"It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart."
"That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor"."
"I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar."
"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."