Bryan Ferry Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

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

I can never predict what's going to happen.

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.

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.

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.

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

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.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

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

I didn't really want to give up music.

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

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.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

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.”

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.

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.

Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

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.

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.

I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Performing was terrifying.

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

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.

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

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.