Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

About Marianne Faithfull:

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress, whose career has spanned six decades.
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

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

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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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My happiness is very fragile.

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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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I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

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

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

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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 think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

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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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All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

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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 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 thes...

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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

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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 want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

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I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

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Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

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I don't talk about my private life.

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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 begin...

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Author Bio

  • NameMarianne Faithfull
  • DescriptionBritish singer, songwriter and actress
  • BornDecember 29, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Autobiographer