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Bryan Ferry
English
Musician
About the author
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,
English
Musician
#Now
#People
#Music
#Dress
#Girls
#Gold
Performing was terrifying.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Silence
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Idea
#Women
#Mystery
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Words
#Writing
#Song
#Quality
#Feelings
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
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.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Years
#Career
#Mistake
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,
English
Musician
#People
#Money
#Stars
#Football
#Soccer
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Words
#Music
I can never predict what's going to happen.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
I didn't really want to give up music.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Want
#Music
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,
English
Musician
#Time
#Day
#Promotion
I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Thought
I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
I like the fact that music is more abstract.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Music
#Fact
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Name
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Words
I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Wife
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Question
#Music
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Love
#Day
#France
#Paris
#Memories
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Moments
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#People
#Failure
#Sound
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Day
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,
English
Musician
#Boston
#Chicago
I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Hope
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,
English
Musician
#Feelings
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Peace
#Quiet
But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Now
But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
Bryan Ferry,
English
Musician
#Time
#Feeling
#Living
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,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Art
#Career
#Writing
#Painting