There is no dark side of the moon really....

edited by Dave Ward

Gilmour: "We don't deliberately try and make everything come out like that. It just works out that things happen that way. We all read science fiction and groove to 2001; it's all very good. But some of our things happen completely accidentally." --Disc & Music Echo, 22 November 1969

Waters: "The space thing was a joke. None of those pieces were about outer space. They were about inner space. That's all it's ever been about--human beings and their insides, whether it was Syd's writing or mine. They were both about the same thing." --Rolling Stone, 19 November 1987

Barrett: (on whether he was interested in science fiction) "Not really, except Journey into Space and Quartermass, which was when I was about fifteen, so that could be where it came from." --Barrett audio interview, ca. 1970

Mason: "I think that Dark Side has proved that the Floyd aren't interstellar rock music and that they haven't been for years..." --Ciao 2001, 25 May 1975

Waters: (on the title track) "The idea is [from] a book by somebody called Neil [Postman]... who wrote a short book called Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is about the history of media, particularly as it relates to political communication.... And I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet. And coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around and finding all our skeletons sittting around our TV sets and trying to work out why it was that our end came before its time. And they come to the conclusion that we had amused ourselves to death." --Amused to Death radio premiere, Westwood One radio network, 27 August 1992

Gilmour: "I like our music to feel three-dimensional. It's about trying to invoke emotions in people, I suppose. You feel larger than life in some sort of way.... We stopped trying to make overtly 'spacey' music and trip people out in that way in the '60s. But that image hangs on and we can't seem to get short of it." --Musician, December 1982

Waters: "I think the new album's [Atom Heart Mother] going to come as something of a surprise, because it's not 'cosmic.'" --The Georgia Straight, 14 October 1970

Waters: "Syd was a genius. But I wouldn't want to go back to playing "Interstellar Overdrive" for hours and hours." --Q, November 1992

Gilmour: (on performing "Astronomy Domine" in 1994) "It needed a bit of dusting [off], I can tell you! I don't think we'd played it since 1968." --Interview Magazine, July 1994