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Performing was terrifying.

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Bryan Ferry
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: September 26
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Scary
Terrifying
Performing

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I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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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.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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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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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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