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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Land People Travel
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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Country People Regret Stupid
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
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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Men Mother Want
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 FAITHFULL

Growing Lessons Up Wake
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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Mother Reading Thinking
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Song Wonderful Years
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Ashamed Father Mother
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
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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Brain Singing Use
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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Attitude Myth Turns
I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Self Sick Song
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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Feedback Narcissism Way
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
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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Delay Sound Touring

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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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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