British - Musician | 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.
Marianne Faithfull
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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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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 know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
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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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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
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I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
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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 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.
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