Syd Barrett 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.
Syd Barrett

Talk, Easy, Head

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

Money, Food, Friends

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett

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

Good, Far, Song

I wasn't always this introverted.
Syd Barrett

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

Happy, Quite, Films

I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett

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

Fun, Young, Seem

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

Time, Path, Waste

Fairy-tales are nice.
Syd Barrett

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

Whole, Seen, Roses

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

Time, Guitar, Used

I'm full of dust and guitars.
Syd Barrett

Full, Dust, Guitars

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

Everything, Leaving, Group

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

Around, Write, Lines

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

After, Few, Group

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

Work, Good, Done

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

Fun, Hard, Everything

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

Nothing, Serious, Operation

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

Teacher, Become, College

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

Nature, Everything, Living

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: January 6, 1946

Died: July 7, 2006

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