David Gilmour citations

David Jon Gilmour, né le 6 mars 1946 à Grantchester, près de Cambridge, est un musicien britannique, producteur de disques et auteur-compositeur-interprète. Il est surtout connu pour être le guitariste et chanteur de Pink Floyd.

En 2018, le magazine Rolling Stone le classe comme le sixième meilleur guitariste de tous les temps.

David Gilmour a également été nommé « meilleur joueur de Fender de tous les temps » par un sondage effectué par le magazine spécialisé Guitarist, arrivant en tête devant d’autres musiciens de légende tels que Jimi Hendrix ou Eric Clapton. Wikipedia  

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David Gilmour: Citations en anglais

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

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

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

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contexte: 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.

“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.”

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

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

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contexte: 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.

“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.
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

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

"Childhood's End", on Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Contexte: 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.

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

Source: 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.”

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

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

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

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

Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)

“Where would rock and roll be without feedback?”

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

“Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!”

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

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

About the band, in Dark Side of the Moon Sessions
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)

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