Bryan Ferry Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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 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.

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.

Performing was terrifying.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.