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I didn't really want to give up music.

Bryan Ferry

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Bryan Ferry
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 26
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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Performing was terrifying.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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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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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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When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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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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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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