Frasi di David Gilmour
David Gilmour
Data di nascita: 6. Marzo 1946
David Jon Gilmour, CBE è un cantautore, polistrumentista, compositore e produttore discografico britannico.
Dal 1968 al 1995 è stato il chitarrista e cantante dello storico gruppo inglese Pink Floyd, con cui è diventato uno dei più influenti e celebri chitarristi del rock. Insieme al suo lavoro con i Pink Floyd e anche successivamente, Gilmour ha lavorato come produttore discografico per molti artisti, ha intrapreso, con successo, una carriera da solista e ha partecipato come membro attivo a varie organizzazioni di beneficenza.
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musicista, compositore e produttore discografico britannicoFrasi David Gilmour
„A mio modo di vedere le vette più alte raggiunte dei Pink Floyd sono quelle in cui lui [Richard Wright] era al massimo. Dopotutto, senza Us and Them e The Great Gig in the Sky, che scrisse entrambe lui, cosa sarebbe stato "The Dark Side of the Moon"? E senza il suo tocco delicato l'album "Wish You Were Here" semplicemente non avrebbe funzionato.“
— David Gilmour
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„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
Context: 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.
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
„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
Context: 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.
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
„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
Context: 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. … 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.
„It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it?“
— David Gilmour
Context: 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.
Listening to The Man with the Child in His Eyes
„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
Context: 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.
As quoted in Sounds : Guitar Heroes (May 1983)
„And so all things time will mend,
So this song will end.“
— David Gilmour
Context: 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.
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
„All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.“
— David Gilmour
Context: You find your eyes are growing moist.
All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.
"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
„... 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, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
„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, 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, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
„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.“
— David Gilmour
On Roger Waters, as quoted in Rock Compact Disc (September 1992)
