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We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year – Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here”, 1975

“That one record [Music From Big Pink] changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it’s the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply.” – Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to Dallas Morning News in 2008

“After Syd, Dave was the difference between light and dark… We became far less difficult to enjoy, I think.” – Nick Mason, Pink Floyd Drummer

“I’ve never had any religion. I’d prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn’t make myself believe.” – David Gilmour, Pink Floyd

“Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?” – Pink Floyd, “Goodbye Blue Sky”, The Wall, 1979

“You’re the kinda girl that fits in with my world” – Pink Floyd, “Bike”, 1967

“I still think that most people of people think of us as a very drug-oriented group… Of course, we’re not. You can trust us…” – David Gilmour, Pink Floyd

“Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air” – Pink Floyd, “Echoes”, 1971

“And when you loose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown” – Pink Floyd, “Dogs”

“B.B. King was a lovely chap. His early stuff was stupendous and he’s just kept going. I first met him in New York. He came up to me and said, “Hey boy are you sure you weren’t born in Mississippi?”” – David Gilmour, Pink Floyd

“Mother, did it need to be so high?” – Pink Floyd, Mother, 1979

“Mother, should I build the wall? Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the government?” – Roger Waters, on Pink Floyd’s “Mother”

“If the band you’re in starts playing different tunes, I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.” – Pink Floyd, Brain Damage, 1973

“”Down and out”, it can’t be helped, but there’s a lot of it about.” – Pink Floyd, Us And Them, 1973

“The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and every day the paperboy brings more.” – Pink Floyd, Brain Damage, 1973

“So you think you can tell Heaven from Hell” – David Gilmour & Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, “Wish You Were Here”

“We did have people who would say to us, “which one’s Pink” and stuff like that. There were an awful lot of people who thought Pink Floyd was the name of the lead singer, and that was Pink himself and the band.” – David Gilmour

“And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon” – Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, (1973)

“For millions of years mankind lived just like animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk.” – Stephen Hawking, sampled, on Pink Floyd’s ‘Keep Talking’ (Division Bell, Side 2, Track 9)

“There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.” – Gerry O’Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios doorman, final words on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

“Is this still really Pink Floyd?” – Opening line of Rolling Stone’s review for Pink Floyd’s “The Division Bell”.

“It was a word I made up about shagging. As in, “I’m off home for some Ummagumma.”” – Emo Moore, on the origin of the name of Pink Floyd’s fourth album, Ummagumma

“I actually got up … and did a Bo Diddley song, but I didn’t know the words, so I sung them after Syd [Barrett] had sung them, until i fell off the stage, drunk” – Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, on meeting an early Pink Floyd in 1965

“It was about more than watching a band stand in front of 600 watts of Marshall speakers, it was about an entertaining show.” – Richard Wright, Pink Floyd

“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyways” – Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd

“We could never recreate the feeling of this note in the studio, especially the particular resonance between the piano and the Leslie” – Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason on that famous NOTE in Echoes

“I think that life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew f**king Lloyd Webber.” – Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on Webber stealing “Echoes” for the opening of the 1987 film Phantom of the Opera

“It’s time to let me in from the cold, turn my lead into gold” – Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, “Wot’s… Uh the Deal?”

“the Pink Floyd does not know what people mean by psychedelic pop and are not trying to create hallucinatory effects on their audiences.” – EMI Press Release for Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn

“Any fool knows a dog needs a home, a shelter from pigs on the wing” – Pink Floyd, Pigs on the Wings

Allegedly, one night at the legendarily scruffy Austin, Texas dive bar The One Knite, an unknown and out-of-place ‘British touring band’ (Pink Floyd) dropped in and asked to jam with Jimmie Vaughan and Doyle Bramhall’s band STORM, but were rejected.

Pink Floyd’s “Have A Cigar” was last performed live by the band on their 1977 “In the Flesh” tour. Roger Waters has continued to play the song live on solo tours.

The child talking about the airplanes in the sky in the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’ on Pink Floyd’s The Wall was Roger Waters’ 2 year old son Harry Waters.

Roger Waters is a fan of John Prine, and the opening melody of Pink Floyd’s “The Post War Dream” from The Final Cut bears a strong resemblance to Prine’s song “Sam Stone”.

Marvel Comics’ Doctor Strange and the Living Tribunal are on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “A Saucerful of Secrets”, and Doctor Strange is also referenced in the Floyd song “Cymbaline”.

The Disco Ball was first patented in 1917 and became popular in the Roaring 20s. Pink Floyd created one of (if not) the largest disco balls in the world for their 1994 tour, at 16′ in diameter.

Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall,” specifically the track “Another Brick in the Wall (part 2),” was banned in South Africa because it was used to protest apartheid education.

Pink Floyd’s THE WALL is designed as an endless loop, with the final track, “Outside the Wall,” ending with the words “Isn’t this where…”, and the album starting with “… we came in?”, and continuing the melody of the last song.

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour discovered (a sixteen year old) Kate Bush and paid for her first studio time to cut a demo for record labels.

The 23 children who sang the choir on Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” were given records & concert tickets for their effort, but didn’t have any royalty agreement. 25 years later, following a change in the UK royalty law, the choir claimed their royalties.

Pink Floyd’s enormous The Wall live stage show was so elaborate, they could only play just 31 performances in five venues during 1980 & 1981.

The lead singer from Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats played “Pink” in the 1982 Pink Floyd movie THE WALL.

In a now-infamous moment, TV personality Pat Boone attempted to interview Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett on live TV after a performance, which Barrett responded with a “blank and totally mute stare”. According to drummer Nick Mason, “Syd wasn’t into moving his lips that day.” It contributed to his departure from the band.

Founding Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett’s post-floyd song “Octopus” (from his album The Madcap Laughs) features a fun Bo Diddley interlude.

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