Syd Barrett Quotes
"I'm disappearing, avoiding most things."
- Syd Barrett
"I'm full of dust and guitars."
- Syd Barrett
"I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently."
- Syd Barrett
"I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Time, Waste)
"I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Nothing)
"If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: College)
"Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Nature, Living)
"I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: People, Fun)
"When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group."
- Syd Barrett
"It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Months, Trouble)
"Fairy-tales are nice."
- Syd Barrett
"I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Food, Money, Friends)
"A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: People, Photography, Want)
"I wasn't always this introverted."
- Syd Barrett
"Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Fun)
"Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Roses)
"I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them."
- Syd Barrett
"I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should."
- Syd Barrett
"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Talk)
"I like songs that are simple."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Songs)
"I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: Time, Guitar)
"I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people."
- Syd Barrett
(Related: People, Meaning, Song)