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| “ | A lot of people think 'I can't sing', including me a bit. I'm very unclear about what singing is. I know I find it hard to pitch, and I know the sound of my voice isn't very good in purely aesthetic terms, and Roy Harper was recording his own album in another EMI studio at the time, he's a mate, and we thought he could probably do a job on it. | ” |
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—Roger Waters, October 1975, Interviewed by Nick Sedgewick in the Wish You Were Here songbook |
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| “ | "Have a Cigar" was a whole track on which I used the guitar and keyboards at once. There are some extra guitars which I dubbed on later, but I did the basic guitar tracks at one time. | ” |
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—David Gilmour, October 1975, Interviewed by Gary Cooper in the Wish You Were Here songbook |
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| “ | 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. That's how it all came about, it was quite genuine. | ” |
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—David Gilmour, December 1992, In the Studio with Redbeard for "Making of Shine On" and "Making of Wish You Were Here" |
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