Bryan Ferry Quotes

#1. But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

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#2. Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

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#3. I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

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#4. I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

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#5. It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

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#6. But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

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#7. When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

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#8. I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

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#9. Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

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#10. Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

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#11. I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,

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#12. I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

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#13. I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

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#14. All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

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#15. I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

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#16. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

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#17. I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the [Bob] Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."

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#18. Performing was terrifying.

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#19. It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.

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#20. It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

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#21. It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

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#22. I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

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#23. Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world ... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

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#24. It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

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#25. But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

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#26. I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

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#27. While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

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#28. It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

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#29. It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

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#30. I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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#31. Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

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#32. You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

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#33. I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

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#34. Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

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#35. I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

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#36. In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

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#37. I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

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#38. You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

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#39. Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

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#40. The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

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#41. Loneliness is a crowded room,
Full of open hearts turned to stone,
All together all alone

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#42. I didn't really want to give up music.

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#43. Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

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#44. I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.

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#45. Loneliness is a crowded room.

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#46. I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

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#47. I can never predict what's going to happen.

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#48. When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

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#49. As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

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#50. I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

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#51. But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

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#52. And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

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#53. I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

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#54. I don't really have a great deal of spare time.I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

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#55. Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

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#56. You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.

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#57. I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

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#58. But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

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#59. At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

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#60. I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

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#61. I like the fact that music is more abstract.

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#62. I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

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