Quotes By Syd Barrett

I'm full of dust and guitars.

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

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

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

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

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

I like songs that are simple.

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

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

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'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

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

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

I wasn't always this introverted.

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

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

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

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

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