Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrettwas an English musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth6 January 1946
light feelings done
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.
rich my-friends lots-of-money
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.
disappear avoiding
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
guitar dust
I'm full of dust and guitars.
writing lines
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
teacher college ifs
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
mean play ideas
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.
dream exactly-is jokes
And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.
waste path wasting-my-time
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
giving looks bells
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.
photography people want
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
guitar mirrors silver
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
reading shining black
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
home records stones
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.