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 FAITHFULLI do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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’d love to make more money in America, that’s the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It’s a shame. I’m trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I’ll be much happier.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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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.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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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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