Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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Marianne Faithfull

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 29, 1946

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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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

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I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

Marianne Faithfull

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

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

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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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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

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

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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'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

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I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

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

Marianne Faithfull

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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I took drugs because we all took drugs.

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

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