I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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.
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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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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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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.
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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.
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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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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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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All I can say is I’ve been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, ‘You’re very good.’
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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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