Syd Barrett Quotes

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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.
• I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
• I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
• I'm full of dust and guitars.
• I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
• If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
• I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
• A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
• Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
• The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
• I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
• Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
• I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I wasnt always this introverted.
• Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
• Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

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