David Gilmour

You shout in your sleep. Just two ears, just two eyes.

— David Gilmour

You find your eyes are growing moist. All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.

— David Gilmour

Who are you and who am I So this song will end.

— David Gilmour

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

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

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

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

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

— David Gilmour

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

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

— David Gilmour

The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.

— David Gilmour

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

— David Gilmour

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

— David Gilmour

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

— David Gilmour

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.

— David Gilmour

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.

— David Gilmour