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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
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People
Meaning
Song
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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Time
Guitar
I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett
Songs
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.
Syd Barrett
Talk
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
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Roses
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Syd Barrett
Fun
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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People
Photography
Want
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.
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Food
Money
Friends
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.
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Months
Trouble
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
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People
Fun
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
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Nature
Living
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
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College
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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Nothing
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
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Time
Waste
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
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Work
Years