Syd Barrett Quotes
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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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I can't do any competitive sport myself!
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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There's always a source for humor.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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In the NBA, there's always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn't have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.
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I had been playing guitar since I was 12. When I was 16, some band had a show and needed a singer... so I did it. I sounded like pure fuckin shit, but it felt natural... so I stuck at it.
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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
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India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
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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.
