Floundering Quotes

After Dark Side we were really floundering around. I wanted to make the next album more musical, because I felt some of these tracks had been just vehicles for the words. We were working in 1974 in this horrible little rehearsal room in Kings Cross without windows, putting together what became the next two albums, `Wish You Were Here`, and `Animals`.

I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of personality to make anyone believe I had special talents. I wanted so desperately to succeed that I drove myself relentlessly, taking no time off for pleasures, or for friendships - yet aiming at the stars, I was still floundering.

It snowballed into people believing the president wouldn`t talk to her and that she was floundering around, ... She was trying to paint this false environment, trying to paint the president as a monster, and there was no truth to that.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range