Syd Barrett Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Syd Barrett:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#dac29bce

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#847cbbbd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#a5ed2cbc

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#07918bb0

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#56963247

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#a01a42b3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#803b0505

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#fc2338e3

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#aded6f79

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#8933acbf

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#0b8e23e1

I'm full of dust and guitars.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#70a4c8e8

Fairy-tales are nice.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#dedd7072

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#b1b0f0cb

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#5a486f23

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#de8bd3ca

I like songs that are simple.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#25a1c874

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#4aa3106f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#89a005e3

I wasn't always this introverted.
~Syd Barrett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#905dffb9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#03963915

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#6c655da3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/syd-barrett-quotes/#18a499cb

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