I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLWhen 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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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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 interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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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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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 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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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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The food that’s never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn’t a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I’m there and bring it back with 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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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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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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