The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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 having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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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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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
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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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