Syd Barrett Quotes (26 Quotes)

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.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I like songs that are simple.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I wasn't always this introverted.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

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.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

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.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.