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Syd Barrett

Read through the most famous quotes from Syd Barrett




Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.


— Syd Barrett


#lot #roses #seen #whole #you

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


— Syd Barrett


#felt #guitar #i #mirrors #never

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


#am #anything #anyway #easy #got

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


— Syd Barrett


#group #had #i #leaving #out

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


— Syd Barrett


#i #i do #like #lines #other

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.


— Syd Barrett


#lot #maybe #read #really #should

I'm full of dust and guitars.


— Syd Barrett


#full #guitars #i

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


#always #been #fast #few #group

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.


— Syd Barrett


#good #i #interviews #last #only

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.


— Syd Barrett


#alot #everything #freaked #fun #getting






About Syd Barrett






Did you know about Syd Barrett?

Barrett is also portrayed briefly in the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll (2006) performing "Golden Hair". Barrett was known to have used Binson delay units to achieve his trademark echo sounds. She insisted that Barrett neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it at any time since they resumed regular contact in the 1980s.

He died in 2006. Barrett left the group in April 1968 amid speculations of mental illness exacerbated by drug use and was briefly hospitalised.

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