Phil Anselmo Quotes

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

A great song is a great song.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

'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 thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.

I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.

My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect and brilliant example of rock song writing.

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.