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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.
- – Roger Waters — Rock Over London Radio Station, 15 March 1985, for broadcast 7 April/14 April 1985.
I think both [Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma] are pretty horrible. Well, the live disc of Ummagumma might be all right, but even that isn’t recorded well.
- – David Gilmour — Der Spiegel No. 23, 5 June 1995
I didn’t have anything, really, to do with the start of Atom Heart Mother, and when I asked them what it was about, they said they didn’t know themselves. It’s a conglomeration of pieces that weren’t related, or didn’t seem to be at the time. The picture isn’t related either; in fact, it was an attempt to do a picture that was unrelated, consciously unrelated.
- – Storm Thorgerson — Guitar World, February 1998
[Atom Heart Mother] was a good idea but it was dreadful. I listened to that album recently: God, it’s shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. Atom Heart Mother sounds like we didn’t have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it.
- – David Gilmour — Mojo Magazine, October 2001[10]
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don’t really think the attempt comes off that well.
- – David Gilmour — Rolling Stone, November 2001
I wouldn’t dream of performing anything that embarrassed me. If somebody said to me now: “Right…here’s a million pounds, go out and play ‘Atom Heart Mother'”, I’d say: “You must be fucking joking… I’m not playing that rubbish!”. ‘Cause then I really would be embarrassed.
- – Roger Waters — interviewed by Richard Skinner on BBC Radio 1, originally broadcast: Saturday 9 June 1984
I like it.
— Richard Wright Saturday 9 June 1984