The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLWhen you split from someone, it doesn’t have to mean that you don’t love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I want to do movies, but I want to do something that’s good. I don’t want to make any more films until I feel that I’m ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
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When you are 18, 19, 20, you’re used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it’s not lived drawing on a full level. I’m relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music – I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter – that I got from my dad.
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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn’t. I don’t think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
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