Bryan Ferry famous quotes

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Music #Powerful #Together

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Quiet #Hours #Peace And Quiet

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Music #Firefighter #Looks

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,
-- Bryan Ferry

#Wine #Labels #Ugly

I can never predict what's going to happen.
-- Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Moments #Good Enough #Enough

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

#Girl #Rapper #High Heels

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Rocks #Fans #Rock N Roll

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
-- Bryan Ferry

#Ugly #Suits #Mood

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

#Song #Art #Writing

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

#New York #Boston #Wish

I didn't really want to give up music.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Giving Up #Giving #Want

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Band #Wrecks #Rooms

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Thinking

Performing was terrifying.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Scary #Performing

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
-- Bryan Ferry

#Records #Bros

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Nice #Different #Pursue

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Failure #People #Sound

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Powerful #Difficult #Very Powerful

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Ideas #Mystery

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

#Memories #Paris #One Day

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Wife #Tokyo #Lennon

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Names #Kitten

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
-- Bryan Ferry

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
-- Bryan Ferry

#Music #Silence #Quiet

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Stuff #Hats #Fur

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

#Littles #Interviews #Days Off

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

#Soccer #Football #Stars

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

#Mistake #Moving #Thinking

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

#Feelings #Fabulous #Kind

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Sweet #Laughing #Too Much