58 Quotes by Syd Barrett

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

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

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

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

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. 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've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

I like songs that are simple.

Well, I've got a color 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.