Syd Barrett famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Song #Stars #Thinking
All middle men are bad.
-- Syd Barrett

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

#Guitar #Mirrors #Silver
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
-- Syd Barrett

#Rose #Colour
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painterâ€¦I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've doneâ€¦But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.
-- Syd Barrett

#Light #Feelings #Done
I'm full of dust and guitars.
-- Syd Barrett

#Guitar #Dust
I wasnt always this introverted.
-- Syd Barrett

#Introverted
Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
-- Syd Barrett

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

#Fun #Used
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
-- Syd Barrett

#Should
And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
-- Syd Barrett

#Dream #Jokes
But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, 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.
-- Syd Barrett

#Mean #Play #Ideas
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

#Rich
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
-- Syd Barrett

#Giving #Bells #Looks
Fairy-tales are nice.
-- Syd Barrett

#Nice #Greatest Love #Fairy Tale
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
-- Syd Barrett

#Reading #Shining #Black
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.
-- Syd Barrett

#Kids #Play #Guitar
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.
-- Syd Barrett

#Girl #Mean #Sleep
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
-- Syd Barrett

#Waste #Path #Wasting My Time
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
-- Syd Barrett

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

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

#Two #Years #Lasts
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

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

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

#Serious #Operations
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

#Months #Groups #Pace
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
-- Syd Barrett

#Writing #Lines
I like songs that are simple.
-- Syd Barrett

#Song #Simple
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
-- Syd Barrett

#Disappear #Avoiding
Iâ€™m not anything that you think I am
-- Syd Barrett

#Thinking
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
-- Syd Barrett

#Theatre #Band #Pops
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

#Photography #People #Want

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