35 Quotes by Nick Mason

I now believe when I’m dead and buried my tombstone will read, ‘I’m not entirely sure the band’s over.’

Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it’s a bit of a fantasy, but it’s a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn’t quite like that.

Watching something being constructed, whether you’re passing a building site or whether you’re watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that’s the enjoyment.

Learning an instrument isn’t about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock.

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

Many fine keyboard players could and did emulate and recreate his parts, but nobody else other than Rick had the ability to create them in the first place.

David, on the other hand, may not be so initially alarming, but once decided on a course of action is hard to sway. When his immovable object met Roger’s irresistible force, difficulties were guaranteed to follow.

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