Syd Barrett quotes

Syd Barrett was an English musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. His innovative guitar techniques and whimsical songwriting played a crucial role in shaping the psychedelic rock genre. He later withdrew from the public eye, leaving a lasting legacy in music history. Here are 39 of his quotes:

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Syd Barrett

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.

Syd Barrett

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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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.

Syd Barrett

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

Syd Barrett

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Syd Barrett

I wasn't always this introverted.

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

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All middle men are bad.

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Well, I've got a colour 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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Syd was so full of whimsy as well as horrible gas. I swear to God that the early recording sessions of Pink Floyd always smelled like a strange mixture of rotten eggs, rancid cabbage, and crap.

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It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here.

Syd Barrett

Their choice of material was always very much to do with what they were thinking as architecture students. Rather unexciting people, I would've thought, primarily. I mean, anybody walking into an art school like that would've been tricked--maybe they were working their entry into an art school.

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I remember the last time we were in the studio that Nick (Mason) ripped this fart. It was one of the most atrocious things the others had ever smelled in their lives. While Roger and Rick fled in terror, I asked Nick for seconds.

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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 think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Syd Barrett

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.

Syd Barrett

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

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I like songs that are simple.

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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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Fairy-tales are nice.

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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.

Syd Barrett