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Quotes by Musician
"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."
"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't."
"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
Past,
"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."
"George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique."
"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."
"My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy."
"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies."
"We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along."
"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation."
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