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Performing was terrifying.

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Bryan Ferry
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 26
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Scary
Terrifying
Performing

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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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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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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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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 will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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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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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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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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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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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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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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While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
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I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
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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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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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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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