Syd Barrett Quotes & Sayings

I'm not anything that you think I am — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fairy-tales are nice. — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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

All middle men are bad. — Syd Barrett

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke. — Syd Barrett

Have You Got It Yet? — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wasn't always this introverted. — Syd Barrett

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. — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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

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

I like songs that are simple. — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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

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

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines. — Syd Barrett

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

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

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

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