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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.

Marianne Faithfull

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 once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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Father Horror Said
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Goes Great Life Want
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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Delay Sound Touring
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
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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Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

All Country Do People Right
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music – I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter – that I got from my dad.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Classical Dad Music Parent
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
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’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Death Fame Things
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 glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Ashamed Father Mother
It’s always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That’s one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
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Career Groovy Men Rich
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Country People Regret Stupid
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Firsts Opera Singing

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