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 FAITHFULLI’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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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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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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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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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’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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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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I’ve got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I’ve thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, ‘What are the things I can do that won’t hurt me and will help me?’ The first answer is work.
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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.
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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.
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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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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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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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