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It’s always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That’s one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.

Marianne Faithfull

The equipment you’ve got really dictates what you’re going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Delay Sound Touring
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Cancer Extraordinary Way
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Goes Great Life Want
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Done Half Involvement Next
When 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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Mean Over Realizing Romance
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Country People Regret Stupid
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Men Mother Want
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Growing Lessons Up Wake
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Attitude Myth Turns
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Firsts Opera Singing
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Hard Knows Trusted
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Father Horror Said
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Mother Reading Thinking
I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Brain Singing Use
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Death Fame Things

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