Syd Barrett Quotes

Let's split. I'm telling you this is it! ~ Syd Barrett

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

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. ~ Syd Barrett

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

Fairy-tales are nice. ~ Syd Barrett

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

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

I'm trying to find you!
I'm living, I'm giving;
to find you;
I'm living,
I'm trying, I'm giving. ~ Syd Barrett

I'm full of dust and guitars... ~ Syd Barrett

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should. ~ Syd Barrett

But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know
where they are. I mean, 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. ~ Syd Barrett

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently. ~ Syd Barrett

I like songs that are simple. ~ Syd Barrett

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

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

...and what exactly is a joke.... ~ Syd Barrett

Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it. ~ Lev Grossman

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. ~ Syd Barrett

I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am. ~ Syd Barrett

I wasn't always this introverted. ~ Syd Barrett

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. ~ Syd Barrett

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines. ~ Syd Barrett

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it. ~ Syd Barrett

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. ~ Syd Barrett

In the end it comes down to two rival versions of the English middle afternoon. Post-Barrett, Pink Floyd kept on in a middle-afternoonish vein, but they fell in love with the idea of portentous storm clouds in the offing somewhere over Grantchester ... Barrett's afternoonishness was far more supple and engaging. It superimposed the hippie cult of eternal solstice on the pre-teatime daydreams of one's childhood, occasioned by a slick of sunlight on a chest of drawers ... His afternoonishness is lit by an importunate adult intelligence that can't quite get back to the place it longs to be ... Barrett created the same precocious longing in adolescents.
I remember 'See Emily Play' drifting across a school corridor in 1967 ... and I remember the powerful wish to stay suspended indefinitely in that music ... I also remember the quasi-adult intimation that this wasn't possible.
[from the London Review of Books for January 2, 2003] ~ Jeremy Harding

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. ~ Syd Barrett

I'm still in The Syd Barrett Memorial Rehabilitation Centre, Cambridge, UK
When and if I'm let out, I'll move on to Saucerful of Secrets.
Prognosis: Uncertain. ~ Sienna McQuillen

I'm not anything that you think I am ~ Syd Barrett

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

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

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. ~ Syd Barrett

I want to feel everything with you, Avery. ~ Nikki Lynn Barrett

Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth. ~ Barrett Foa

Who so loves believes the impossible. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We're going to be matchmakers and find the perfect girl for Barrett."
"I already told them that every girl is perfect, and that's the problem--cant pick just one."
"You're full of shit," Taylor waved him off. "All right, first of all--do you prefer brunette, blonde, ginger, or bald?"
"Yes," Barrett said confidently.
"Which one?" Taylor asked.
"All of them."
"Even bald?" I asked.
He shrugged. "Could be sexy. ~ Tess Oliver

I want to feel again," Lucas whispered, taking
the last few steps that bridged the distance between
them. "You make me feel something, and I need to
feel again." His long arms encircled her waist. -Lucas Bennett ~ Nikki Lynn Barrett

It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth
'Tis then we get the right good from a book. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be without words, and with words, all the same. So too is it with the lighthearted sigh – an outward expression of an abundance of the heart. ~ Zechariah Barrett

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sometimes incidents and events in our lives bring out the best in us, or the worst. Sometimes we recover from these events and sometimes we don't - but they always impact us. At other times how we act and react, or deal with a particular situation, reveals our "true" nature and tells us who we really are. ~ Syd Field

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave. ~ Eaton Stannard Barrett

Light tomorrow with today. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love to read, but all through school I hated it when books were pulled apart and analyzed. Winnie-the-pooh as a political allegory, that sort of thing. It never really worked for me. There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her that when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment."

'The Winter Sea ~ Susanna Kearsley

Good-bye Holmes. It ... hasn't really been a pleasure. But thank you for the information. Be careful to keep out of prison. Unless you want an upgrade to your current living conditions, then I wish you the best. ~ Zechariah Barrett

He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world ~ A. Igoni Barrett

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time. ~ Zechariah Barrett

The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By doing research - whether in written sources such as books, magazines, or newspapers or through personal interviews - you acquire information. The information you collect allows you to operate from the position of choice, confidence, and responsibility. You can choose to use some, or all, or none of the material you've gathered; that's your choice, dictated by the terms of the story. Not using it because you don't have it offers you no choice at all, and will always work against you and your story. ~ Syd Field

You may have started a war," Jean growled. "All for what?"
Ammon growled back. "To take back this world! To never live in fear again! ~ Zechariah Barrett

Once outside, the detectives advanced up an escalator and to a floor with two elevators. One was labeled for the staff, and the other for guests. In the corner was a plain grey door which led up a staircase.
"Monsieur Leor ... " Jean began. "Are you up for a challenge?"
"You want to run up the staircase." Leor concluded, plainly. "Like schoolboys?"
"Ouais, monsieur," Jean replied, with a silly grin. "You can consider it your preliminary training, if that helps your dignity. ~ Zechariah Barrett

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,
where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning's dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos. ~ Barrett Tillman

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And trade is art, and art's philosophy,
In Paris. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material. ~ Andrea Barrett

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd)
That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it. ~ William Barrett

I have a funny process : it's called procrastination. ~ K. K. Barrett

XI
I sang his name instead of song;
Over and over I sang his name:
Backward and forward I sang it along,
With my sweetest notes, it was still the same!
I sang it low, that the slave-girls near
Might never guess, from what they could hear,
That all the song was a name. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be
the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards. ~ Rona Barrett

First Church of the Unleaded God & Ace High Refinery
WELCOME
KEEP OUT ~ Neal Barrett Jr.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. ~ Tom Barrett

Barrett lingers awhile. He's not eager to relinquish the strange pleasure of sitting in the green chair, surrounded by the ever-diminishing offerings that had, just yesterday, been daily articles, watching the apartment disappear, piece by piece. ~ Michael Cunningham

Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning