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Syd Barrett Quotes

1946–2006 England

Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use.

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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.

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.

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.

I'm full of dust and guitars…

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Syd Barrett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.