Syd Barrett Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“Fiction is the best the self-help book.”

“I'm full of dust and guitars...”

“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.”

“A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.”

“Yes," I answered you last night;"No," this morning, sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelightWill not look the same by day.”

“For M & B.Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge:rise to the occasion.”

“I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.”

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”

“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.”