Syd Barrett Quotes

I’m not anything that you think I am.

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

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.

I’m sorry I can’t speak very coherently.

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

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

I wasn’t always this introverted.

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

I think it’s good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

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

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

I don’t really read a lot. Maybe I should.

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

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

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.

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

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.

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

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…

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

I like songs that are simple.

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

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

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.

It’s rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.

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.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

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.