I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLFor 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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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 a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
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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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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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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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 having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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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 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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