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
english-musician good
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.
girl mean sleep
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.
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.
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.
disappear avoiding
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
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.
im-sorry sorry speak
Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
color buying pork
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.
pace months groups
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.
english-musician sort written
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.