Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Syd Barrett
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
I think of me being a painter eventually.
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
I'm full of dust and guitars.
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
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.
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
I like songs that are simple.
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. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
Fairy-tales are nice.
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.
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.
I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.
I wasn't always this introverted.
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Mostly, I just waste my time.
'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.
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.
I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.
Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
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 suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.
You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.
All middle men are bad.
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.
I’m not anything that you think I am.
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
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.
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
I really prefer electric music.
I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.
And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?
Singles are always simple.
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...
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. 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.
Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.
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