Quotes About Syd Barrett

#1. I'm still in The Syd Barrett Memorial Rehabilitation Centre, Cambridge, UK
When and if I'm let out, I'll move on to Saucerful of Secrets.
Prognosis: Uncertain.

Sienna McQuillen

#2. I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.

Arjen Anthony Lucassen

#3. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.

Lev Grossman

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#9. Fairy-tales are nice.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#11. All middle men are bad.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#14. 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

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#18. Have You Got It Yet?

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#20. 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.

Syd Barrett

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#25. 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

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#34. I wasn't always this introverted.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

#37. 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.

Syd Barrett

#38. I like songs that are simple.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett