Syd Barrett Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Easy

  Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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• 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

  Music, Song, Stars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

  Syd Barrett

  Dream, Exactly Is, Jokes

  "Song: 'Jugband Blues'". 1968.

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• I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

  Syd Barrett

  Disappear, Avoiding

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Syd Barrett

  Reading, Shining, Black

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• I’m not anything that you think I am.

  Syd Barrett

  Thinking

  Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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• I wasn't always this introverted.

  Syd Barrett

  Introvert, Introverted

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Syd Barrett

  Men, Thinking, Being Real

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• 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

  Giving, Looks, Bells

  "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.

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

  Syd Barrett

  Rose, Colour, Whole

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Girl, Mean, Sleep

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• I'm full of dust and guitars.

  Syd Barrett

  Guitar, Dust

  Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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

  Syd Barrett

  Fun, Thinking, Should Have

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Theatre, Band, Pops

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• All middle men are bad.

  Syd Barrett

  Men, Middle

  Melody Maker, December 09, 1967.

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• Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

  Syd Barrett

  Im Sorry, Sorry, Speak

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

  Syd Barrett

  Waste, Path, Wasting My Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mean, Play, Ideas

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• 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

  Vaccines, Rich, My Friends

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Home, Records, Stones

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• Fairy-tales are nice.

  Syd Barrett

  Nice, Greatest Love, Fairy Tale

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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• I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

  Syd Barrett

  Satisfied, Feels, Active

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• 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.

  Syd Barrett

  Hair, Guitar, Play

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• 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.

  Syd Barrett

  Jobs, Would Be, Stopping

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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