Marianne Faithfull Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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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.

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

Marianne Faithfull

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

Marianne Faithfull

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

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 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.

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

All I have to do is what's right for me.

Marianne Faithfull

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

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

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

Marianne Faithfull

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

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

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

Marianne Faithfull

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

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'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.

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

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

Marianne Faithfull

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Marianne Faithfull

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

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