Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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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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I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
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My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
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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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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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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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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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I'd love to play a musician in a film.
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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 never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.
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I have to watch out for being lazy.
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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
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I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
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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 interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
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I took drugs because we all took drugs.
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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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Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.