Marianne Faithfull Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”
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“I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.”
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“Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!”
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“I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.”
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“I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'”
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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 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 do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.”
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“I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.”
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“I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.”
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“France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.”
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“I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.”
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“Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.”
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“Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.”
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“To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.”
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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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“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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“My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.”
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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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“I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.”
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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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“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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“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 lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.”
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“Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.”
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“I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.”
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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 thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”
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“I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.”
-- Marianne Faithfull
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