All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLThere 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.
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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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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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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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’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
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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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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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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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I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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 a lot of little compulsive problems, and I’ve thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, ‘What are the things I can do that won’t hurt me and will help me?’ The first answer is work.
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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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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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