Ferry Quotes

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Bryan Ferry

Music, Silence, Quiet

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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Bryan Ferry

Music, Firefighter, Looks

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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Bryan Ferry

Quiet, Hours, Peace And Quiet

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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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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Ferry

Music, Powerful, Together

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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Bryan Ferry

Song, Art, Writing

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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Bryan Ferry

Feelings, Fabulous, Kind

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

Van Morrison

Rain, Ocean, Garden

Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Bryan Ferry

Moments, Good Enough, Enough

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I didn't really want to give up music.

Bryan Ferry

Giving Up, Giving, Want

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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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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 can never predict what's going to happen.

Bryan Ferry

Happens, I Can

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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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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Bryan Ferry

Ideas, Mystery, Knows

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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

Bryan Ferry

Wife, Tokyo, Lennon

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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Bryan Ferry

Powerful, Difficult, Very Powerful

"Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry unwinds in Paris" by Talia Soghomonian, December 2002.

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

Bryan Ferry

Thinking

NY Rock Interview, December 2002.

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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Bryan Ferry

Failure, People, Sound

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I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

Ella Reeve Bloor

People, Car, Watches

Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

Groucho Marx

Inspiration, Wife, Boat

Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

Jo Brand

Animal, Fans, England

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It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

John Aldridge

Soccer, Football, Player

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My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

Aimee Friedman

Mom, Ocean, Marine

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