Quotes by Syd Barrett

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm full of dust and guitars...”

“Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painterI seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've doneBut it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places wi...”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“I'm full of dust and guitars…”

“All middle men are bad.”

“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.”

“And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 a...”