Bryan Ferry Quotes
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I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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Performing was terrifying.
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
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I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
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I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.