Syd Barrett quotes:
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
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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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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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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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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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Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
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I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
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Fairy-tales are nice.
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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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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We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.
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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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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
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I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
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I like songs that are simple.
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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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I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
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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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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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I'm full of dust and guitars...
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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 wasn't always this introverted.
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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All middle men are bad.
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And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
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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 do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.
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I really prefer electric music.
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I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.
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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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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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I think of me being a painter eventually.
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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 wasnt always this introverted.
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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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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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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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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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Singles are always simple.
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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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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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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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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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You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.