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Syd Barrett
10 quotes
“I'm full of dust and guitars…”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rolling Stone, December 1971
“All middle men are bad.”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Melody Maker, 1967-12-09
“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.”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rolling Stone, December 1971
“And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1946–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Melody Maker, March 1971
“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 (1946–2006) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rolling Stone, December 1971
“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.”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out
“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 (1946–2006) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Melody Maker, 1967-12-09
“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.”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Syd Barrett interview in Melody Maker, 1971-03-27