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All Quotes by author - Marianne Faithfull

" Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions. "

" I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed. "

" I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I took drugs because we all took drugs. "

" 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. "

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

" My happiness is very fragile. "

" Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive! "

" The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. "

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

" The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. "

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

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

" When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man. "

" 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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