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

Marianne Faithfull

If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Bad Times Wanted
If I let myself sink into depression, I won’t be able to get out. And then I’ll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Able Light Trust Unhappy
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

Career Groovy Men Rich
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
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

All Country Do People Right
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
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Goes Great Life Want
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
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
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
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Stars Thinking Want
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Ashamed Father Mother
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.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Body Done Lucky
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
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Firsts Opera Singing
I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Doctors Nails Skins

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

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