Syd Barrett: 49 Quotes by the Musician

Musician
1946 - 2006
49 quotes

Syd Barrett, a musician (1946 - 2006), is quoted 49 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, Guitar, Play and Men.

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I really prefer electric music.
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I wasn't always this introverted.
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Introvert

Introverted

Always
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I’m not anything that you think I am.
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Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
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Im Sorry

Sorry

Speak
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I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
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Avoiding

Disappear

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

Speak
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I think of me being a painter eventually.
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Painter

Think Of Me

Thinking
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I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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Operations

Serious

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

College

Ifs

Stayed
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And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?
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Dream

Exactly Is

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

Rose

Whole

Seen

Colours

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

Path

Treading

Waste

Wasting My Time

Backward

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

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

Feels

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

Littles

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

Reading

Shining
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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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Fun

Should Have

Thinking

Seem

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

Writing

Tend
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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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Done

Interviews

Two

Years

Work Good Done
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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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Guitar

Mirrors

Silver

Stage

Close
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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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Fun

Used

Working Very Hard

Alot

Freaked

Studio
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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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My Friends

Rich

Vaccines

All My Friends

Buy
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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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Music

Song

Stars

Thinking

Good Song People

Meaning

More People

Reach
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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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People

Photography

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

Guitar

Play
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
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Guitarist

Hendrix

Jump

Properly
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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.
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Men

Being Real

Thinking
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'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.
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Arnold

Clothing

Dig

Dressing
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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.
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Easy

Thinking

Talk

Very

Anything

Am

Got

Head

Irregular
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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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Band

Pops

Theatre
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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.
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Art

School

Successful
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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.
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Buying

Color

Pork
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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.
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Home

Records

Stones
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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.
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Guitar

Hair

Play
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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.
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Jobs

Stopping

Would Be
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I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.
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Arnold

Composed

Fitted
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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...
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Bells

Giving

Looks
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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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Groups

Months

Pace

Always Me Trouble

Fast

Group

Me Always Trouble

Reach

Slow

Sprinter
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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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Ideas

Mean

Play
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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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Feelings

Groups

Light
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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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Girl

Mean

Sleep
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