Bryan Ferry Quotes - Page 2

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• I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Play, Piano

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Interesting, Needs

  "An Unsettling Creation". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

  Bryan Ferry

  Nice, Different, Pursue

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, Rapper, High Heels

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• I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

  Bryan Ferry

  Eight, Age, Littles

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

  Bryan Ferry

  People, Sometimes, Stage

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Fall, Rain

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Mean, Bored

  "Bryan Ferry's Live Act". Interview with Michael Hafford, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Piano, Machines

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

  Bryan Ferry

  Days Off, Schedules, Littles

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• Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

  Bryan Ferry

  Perspective, Giving, Different

  "An Unsettling Creation". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Performing was terrifying.

  Bryan Ferry

  Scary, Performing

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• In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

  Bryan Ferry

  New York, Boston, Wish

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• I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

  Bryan Ferry

  Memories, Paris, One Day

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• And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

  Bryan Ferry

  Fur, Coats, Stuff

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• I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

  Bryan Ferry

  Country, House, London

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2014.

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• I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

  Bryan Ferry

  Thinking, Dukes, Embrace

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

  Bryan Ferry

  College, People, Singing

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

  Bryan Ferry

  Writing, Done, Orchestra

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

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• It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

  Bryan Ferry

  Starting Out, Starting, Hard

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Nice, One Day

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2014.

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• I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

  Bryan Ferry

  Thinking, Ferry

  NY Rock Interview, December 2002.

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• I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

  Bryan Ferry

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

  Bryan Ferry

  Names, Kitten

  NY Rock Interview, December 2002.

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