Syd Barrett Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm full of dust and guitars.

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

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

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

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

I like songs that are simple.

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

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

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

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.

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.