I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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 do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
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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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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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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 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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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.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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 having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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I’d love to make more money in America, that’s the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It’s a shame. I’m trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I’ll be much happier.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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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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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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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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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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