Top 38 Syd Barrett Quotes

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

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

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#3. And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.

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#4. It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

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#5. I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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

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#8. 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.

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

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

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#11. I wasn't always this introverted.

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#12. I'm trying to find you!
I'm living, I'm giving;
to find you;
I'm living,
I'm trying, I'm giving.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. I like songs that are simple.

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

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

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

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

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

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#24. Fairy-tales are nice.

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

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#26. All middle men are bad.

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#27. I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. I'm not anything that you think I am

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#31. I'm full of dust and guitars...

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

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#33. Have You Got It Yet?

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

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#35. 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.

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. 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.

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