Comfortably Numb Quotes

“There’s a bit in “Echoes” we call “the wind section” where it all falls apart, and then comes back in,’ explains Guy Pratt. ‘Some of the younger players, mentioning no names, couldn’t get their heads around it not being a set number of bars. It was like, “You have to feel it and know instinctively when to come back in.” David’s great line about that was, “The trouble with modern musicians is that they don’t know how to disintegrate.”
― Mark Blake, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

“There are people who say we should make room for younger bands. That’s not the way it works. They can make their own room.”
― Mark Blake, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

“On the original tour, Pink Floyd had only 35mm cine-projectors with which to beam an image a maximum of 80ft wide in the middle of the wall. Waters now had twenty-three projectors beaming images across the full width of the 240ft wall, and on to a circular screen behind the stage. It was a visual feast, with Gerald Scarfe’s ghoulish animations now brought to life in eye-watering”
― Mark Blake, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

“That tour was riven with tension. But I think it was all the better for it. Pink Floyd was borne out of tension for so many years that I think it still functioned at its best when it wasn’t just a band of happy misfits.”
― Mark Blake, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd