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 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 do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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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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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I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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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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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’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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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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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’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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