Syd Barrett Quotes

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.

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

Singles are always simple.

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

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

I really prefer electric music.

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

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

I wasn't always this introverted.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 think of me being a painter eventually.

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

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

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.

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.

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

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?

I'm full of dust and guitars.

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.

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

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

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I like songs that are simple.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.