Marianne Faithfull quotes - page 2

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. (Marianne Faithfull)

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'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

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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.

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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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I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

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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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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)

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

Marianne Faithfull

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

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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 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 never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

Marianne Faithfull

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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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. (Marianne Faithfull)

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

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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'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

Marianne Faithfull

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

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Marianne Faithfull

Occupation: British Musician
Born: December 29, 1946
Died: January 30, 2025
Quotes count: 69