Frasi di David Gilmour

„La cosa divertente fu che Leonard Bernstein assistette a uno dei nostri concerti americani, e si annoiò a morte ascoltando Atom Heart Mother – ma gli piacque molto tutto il resto…“

—  David Gilmour

„Sembra che prima di unirsi ai Pink Floyd, Syd avesse più talento nell'arte pittorica che nel suonare la chitarra… Io stesso ero convinto che il suonare la chitarra fosse una delle pochissime cose che non sapesse fare… Ma lui riuscì a elaborare un suo stile chitarristico ben definito.“

—  David Gilmour

„Ci stiamo comunque concentrando su un angolo visuale diverso da quello di Roger. Lui ama le parole, io la musica. I nostri momenti migliori sono stati quelli in cui siamo riusciti a equilibrare le due dimensioni, anche se spesso abbiamo dato troppa importanza alle parole come veicolo di contenuti.“

—  David Gilmour

Origine: Dall'intervista di Jon Pareles, The Pop Life, The New York Times, 7 ottobre 1987.

„Who are you and who am I
To say we know the reason why
Some are born, some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky?“

—  David Gilmour

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contesto: Who are you and who am I
To say we know the reason why
Some are born, some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky?
There'll be war, there'll be peace,
But everything one day will cease,
All the iron turned to rust,
All the proud men turned to dust,
And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.

„You shout in your sleep.
Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?“

—  David Gilmour

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contesto: You shout in your sleep.
Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?
You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.
Just one man beneath the sky,
Just two ears, just two eyes.

„All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.“

—  David Gilmour

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contesto: You find your eyes are growing moist.
All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.

„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.“

—  David Gilmour

As quoted in Sounds : Guitar Heroes (May 1983)
Contesto: 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.

„It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it?“

—  David Gilmour

Listening to The Man with the Child in His Eyes
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Contesto: It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics — about whatever they're about.

„I had a listen, I was intrigued … by this strange voice, and I went to her house, met her parents down in Kent, and she played me, it must have been forty or fifty songs, on tape, and I thought, I should try to do something.“

—  David Gilmour

… We were making — Pink Floyd was making the Wish You Were Here album, and I think we had the record company people down at Abbey Road, in number 3, and I said to them "Do you want to hear something I've got? And they said "sure", so we found another room, and I played it to them, "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", and they said "Yep, thank you – we'll have it."
On first hearing 15-year-old Kate Bush's demo tapes, and meeting with her.
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

„And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.“

—  David Gilmour

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contesto: Who are you and who am I
To say we know the reason why
Some are born, some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky?
There'll be war, there'll be peace,
But everything one day will cease,
All the iron turned to rust,
All the proud men turned to dust,
And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.

„… the second time you see something is really thetime. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.“

—  David Gilmour

Origine: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

„It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.“

—  David Gilmour

„I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.“

—  David Gilmour

Origine: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

„It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.“

—  David Gilmour

Origine: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

„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.“

—  David Gilmour

On guitar solos, in an interview in Time, quoted in Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon (2003)

„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.“

—  David Gilmour

As quoted in Penthouse (September 1988)

„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.“

—  David Gilmour

As quoted in Musician (December 1982)

„It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.“

—  David Gilmour

Comment regarding the Pink Floyd reunion concert to protest G8 policies, as quoted in The Scotsman (June 2005) http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4681299

„Where would rock and roll be without feedback?“

—  David Gilmour

Dark Side of the Moon Sessions
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)