David Gilmour Quotes

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.