Syd Barrett Quotes - Page 2

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

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.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

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.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

I really prefer electric music.

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.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

Singles are always simple.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

I like songs that are simple.

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

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