Syd Barrett Quotes - Page 2

• I think of me being a painter eventually.

  Syd Barrett

  Thinking, Painter, Think Of Me

  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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• 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

  Photography, People, Want

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

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

  Syd Barrett

  Clean, Cambridge

  "A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett". Book by Rob Chapman, p. 311, 2010.

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• 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

  Light, Feelings, Groups

  Melody Maker, March 1971.

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

  Syd Barrett

  Fun, Working Very Hard, Used

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

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

  Syd Barrett

  Mirrors, Guitar, Silver

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

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• 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

  Color, Pork, Buying

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

  Syd Barrett

  Writing, Lines

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

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

  Syd Barrett

  Teacher, College, Ifs

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

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• 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

  Groups, Pace, Months

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

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• Singles are always simple.

  Syd Barrett

  Simple, Singles

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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

  Syd Barrett

  Should

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

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

  Syd Barrett

  Years, Two, Done

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

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• I like songs that are simple.

  Syd Barrett

  Song, Simple

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

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

  Syd Barrett

  Done, Littles, Might

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• 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.

  Syd Barrett

  Art, School, Successful

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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

  Syd Barrett

  Serious, Operations

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

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