Syd Barrett quotes
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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.”
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“All middle men are bad.”
-- Syd BarrettSource : Melody Maker, December 09, 1967.
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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.”
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“Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.”
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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.”
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“I'm full of dust and guitars.”
-- Syd BarrettSource : Rolling Stone, December 1971.
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“Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.”
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“And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.”
-- Syd BarrettSource : "Song: 'Jugband Blues'". 1968.
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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.”
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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.”
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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 BarrettSource : "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.
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“Fairy-tales are nice.”
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“You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.”
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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 BarrettSource : Rolling Stone, December 1971.
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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.”
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“I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.”
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“If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.”
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“I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.”
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“The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.”
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“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 BarrettSource : Rolling Stone, December 1971.
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“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.”
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“I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.”
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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.”
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“I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.”
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“I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.”
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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”
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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.”
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