62+ Marianne Faithfull Quotes On Marriage, Snl And Saturday Night Live

Marianne Faithfull was a British musician, singer, and songwriter. She rose to fame in the 1960s with her single "As Tears Go By" and was known for her powerful, distinctive voice. She is also known for her turbulent personal life, including her relationships with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Marianne Faithfull on love, marriage, life.

Top 10 Marianne Faithfull Quotes

1. Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
2. Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
3. The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
4. My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
5. The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
6. It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
7. Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
8. 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.
9. It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
10. I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

Marianne Faithfull Short Quotes

• The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
• Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
• I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?
• I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
• I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
• I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
• If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.
• I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
• When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Marianne Faithfull Quotes About Love

There is a land that I can go toWhen I have time to rest.All the people I love are thereAnd those who love me best. — Marianne Faithfull

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out. — Marianne Faithfull

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier. — 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. — Marianne Faithfull

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater. — Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull Quotes About Life

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me. — Marianne Faithfull

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think. — Marianne Faithfull

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business. — Marianne Faithfull

I want to do movies, but I want to do something that's good. I don't want to make any more films until I feel that I'm ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want. — Marianne Faithfull

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

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

Marianne Faithfull Quotes About Drugs

I took drugs because we all took drugs. — Marianne Faithfull

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

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless. — Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I'd really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don't. It's hard to get them to see me as a musician, they just see me as a hanger-on to the Stones, which is not what I am at all. It's a good idea, and if something like that would turn up I could do a whole television show. I've thought about playing a landlady, sort of a mad '60s lady, this absolutely insane character. I would love it. It's a great idea. — Marianne Faithfull

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid. — Marianne Faithfull

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late. — Marianne Faithfull

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's. — Marianne Faithfull

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right. — Marianne Faithfull

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. — Marianne Faithfull

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't. — 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. — Marianne Faithfull

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

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough. — Marianne Faithfull

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

The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day. — Marianne Faithfull

I'm a tame actress. I get tired now that I'm entertaining day and night professionally. I think the only reason for going to a party is to pick up a good lay. When you've got a permanent boyfriend it's rather spoilt. Because the fun of a party is to flirt with everyone. I like flirting. — Marianne Faithfull

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit. — Marianne Faithfull

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

You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did. — Marianne Faithfull

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

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything. — Marianne Faithfull

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. — Marianne Faithfull

I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me. — Marianne Faithfull

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years. — Marianne Faithfull

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star. — 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

My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears. — Marianne Faithfull

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal. — Marianne Faithfull

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. — Marianne Faithfull

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. — Marianne Faithfull

Life Lessons by Marianne Faithfull

1. Marianne Faithfull teaches us to never give up and keep fighting for what we believe in, no matter how hard life gets.
2. She also reminds us to stay true to ourselves and our passions, even if it means going against the grain of society.
3. Lastly, she shows us that it is possible to overcome adversity and come out stronger than before.