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Syd Barrett
English
Musician
About the author
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Work
#Years
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
I'm full of dust and guitars.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Time
#Waste
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Nothing
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#College
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Living
#Nature
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#People
#Fun
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Trouble
#Months
Fairy-tales are nice.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Food
#Friends
#Money
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Want
#People
#Photography
I wasn't always this introverted.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Fun
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Roses
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Talk
I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Songs
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Syd Barrett,
English
Musician
#Time
#Guitar
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,
English
Musician
#People
#Song
#Meaning