Top 10 Syd Barrett Quotes

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 art school like that would've been tricked--maybe they were working their entry into an art school.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

All middle men are bad.

I'm full of dust and guitars…