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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.

Marianne Faithfull

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
Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Song Wonderful Years
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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Cancer Extraordinary Way
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
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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Firsts Opera Singing
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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Answers Hurt Littles
I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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Capricorns Flower Late
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
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
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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Frightened Get Ill Like
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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London Paris Syrup
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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Hard Knows Trusted
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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All Country Do People Right
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 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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Mean Over Realizing Romance

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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