Nick Mason Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.”

“The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.”

“The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.”

“When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.”

“I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.”

“Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.”

“There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.”

“I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.”

“But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.”

“People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.”