Syd Barrett Quotes

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

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

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

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

I’m not anything that you think I am.

I wasn't always this introverted.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

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...

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

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.

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

I'm full of dust and guitars.

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

All middle men are bad.

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

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

But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

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.

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.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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.

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

I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.