Syd Barrett Quotes

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. 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

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

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

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

I'm full of dust and guitars.
Syd Barrett

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.
Syd Barrett

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

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

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.
Syd Barrett

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
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