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 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I want to do movies, but I want to do something that’s good. I don’t want to make any more films until I feel that I’m ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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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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.
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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
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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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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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