Zitat des Tages von David Gilmour:
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 love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
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.
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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.
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 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.
