135 Quotes by 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.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

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

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

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

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

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