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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Fairy-tales are nice.
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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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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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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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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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You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
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I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
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And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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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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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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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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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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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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I’m not anything that you think I am.
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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 think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
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I wasnt always this introverted.
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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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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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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.