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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

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Bryan Ferry
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 26
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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.”
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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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.
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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.
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It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
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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.
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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.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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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.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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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.
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