Roger Waters:

«Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again!… It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn’t really about anything».

«Rock Over London», Radio Station, 15 March 1985

Richard Wright:

« Atom Heart Mother was group writing, we all wrote that together.  I enjoyed making it. It was the first time I actually wrote, with Ron Geesin, and wrote the choir piece, in the middle of it, so actually putting it down on paper the notes, and then going to see the choir and see them sing it. I don't think for us... it didn't work musically too well, it still sounds like the group's stuffed on top. It's not a very integrated piece. It's great fun to do live mind you. I don't think its a very, we're talking about points in a career, to me it's not very a important thing in terms that we did use other musicians for the first time like the brass and the choir. Actually writing and printing a piece rather then a collection of individual songs (but) I don't particularly like it. »

« The Pringle Program », Montreal Radio, December 1978

Nick Mason:

«What we should have done was use a click track but we didn’t and Roger and I played the whole fucking thing through from beginning to end as a backing track. So the tempo is irregular. Consequently when they put the orchestra on top the only way the conductor could make any sense of it was to have a bloody loud PA system giving him the backing track, which meant there was spill onto all the orchestra. SO it was a less than a perfect arrangement»

«To infinity … and beyond», Uncut, May 2019.

            Ron Geesin;

            «For the cello I was given no indication or guidance as to what to do, only that there would be a cello. For the choir section, Dave played me an arpeggio, and Rick Wright and I  discussed the first coupleof bars»

            «To infinity … and beyond», Uncut, May 2019.

            Interviewer: «Voor mij is de invloed van elektroniese avant-garde toch erg duidelijk. Ook het koor dat in Atom Heart Mother voor-komt is een stuk dat erg veel lijkt op een 

            kompositie van Stockhausen, nl. Carré »

            David Gilmour: «Daar kan ik niets over zeg-gen, want dat koor is toege-voegd door Ron Geesin. Het idee voor Atom Heart Mother kwam overigens van mij. 

            (Er volgt nu een heen en weer gesprek van            zeker 20 minuten, over wat nu elektroniese mu-ziek is, over avant garde en muziek Uberhaupt»

            Rick Wright : «Inderdaad lijkt het dik-wijls ergveel op Stockhausen, maar dat is meer toeval. 

            De intermezzo's van mij op orgel, die in vele nummers gebruikt worden, komen op een hele andere wijze tot stand, dan in de konventionele muziek. Ik heb er veel minder pretenties mee; 

            ik vind 't op dat moment gewoon erg mooi of fijn om te doen. Ik luister wel naar elektroniese muziek en ik denk dat daar alles wel mee gezegd is. 

             Luister ook eens naar de franse komponist Messiaen; ook die zou je in de Floyd kunnen herkennen. Zelfs Tsjai-kowsky!»

            «Pink Floyd - Paarde, Orkanen & Vu urpijlen», Aloha, 16 June 1972

Rick Wright:

« In the summer of ‘68, there were groupies everywhere; they’d come and look after you like a personal maid, do your washing, sleep with you, and leave with a dose of the clapMy lyrics are really bad and they’re not saying anything that’s important. A couple of songs I haven’t minded being put out in terms of Lyrics, like Summer’ 68. Although I don’t think that the lyrics were good, they did at least say something that - I felt - was a real genuine feeling and therefore that’s cool »

« Weighty », Q Magazine, May 1994

Would you like to say something before you leave?

Perhaps you'd care to state exactly how you feel

We say goodbye before we've said hello

I hardly even like you

I shouldn't care at all

We met just six hours ago

The music was too loud

From your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year

And I would like to know

How do you feel, how do you feel?

How do you feel, how do you feel?

Not a single word was said

The night still hid our fears

Occasionally you showed a smile

But what was the need

I felt the cold far too soon

In a room of 95

My friends are lying in the sun

I wish that I was there

Tomorrow brings another town

Another girl like you

Have you time before you leave to greet another man?

Just you let me know

How do you feel, how do you feel?

How do you feel, how do you feel?

Goodbye to you

Charlotte Pringle's due

I've had enough for one day

And I would like to know

How do you feel, how do you feel?

How do you feel, how do you feel?

David Gilmour;

« I love Fat Old Sun. It’s one of those songs where the whole thing fell together very easily. In fact, I remember at the time thinking, ‘What have I ripped this off of ? Where did this tune come from ? I’m sure it’s something by The Kinks to someone else’. But no-one has ever yet said, ‘It’s exactly like this’ I think it’s a nice lyric, I’m very happy with that »

«To infinity … and beyond», Uncut, May 2019.