Rick Wright Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

If the band wouldn't have made it, I probably would've been a photographer. Being an architect never interested me.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

There is no way that I could play music and take any kind of drug at the same time.

We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.