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Marianne Faithfull Quotes

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

– Marianne Faithfull

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.

– Marianne Faithfull

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

– Marianne Faithfull

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

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.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

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

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.

– 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.

– Marianne Faithfull

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.’

– Marianne Faithfull

I’d love to play a musician in a film.

– Marianne Faithfull

I do have a strong sense of God. It’s impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

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.

– Marianne Faithfull

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.

– Marianne Faithfull

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

– Marianne Faithfull

I’ve simplified much more in my writing. I say what I’ve got to say, not in metaphor.

– Marianne Faithfull

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.

– Marianne Faithfull

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

– Marianne Faithfull

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.

– Marianne Faithfull

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 focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’

– Marianne Faithfull

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 was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

– Marianne Faithfull

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

– Marianne Faithfull

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