Bryan Ferry Quotes
"But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Peace, Quiet)
"But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Art, Career, Painting, Songs, Writing)
"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
(Related: Music, People, Dress, Girls, Gold, Now)
"Performing was terrifying."
- Bryan Ferry
"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Silence)
"Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Women, Idea, 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
(Related: Quality, Feelings, Song, Songs, Words, Writing)
"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."
- Bryan Ferry
"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
(Related: Mistake, Career, Years)
"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
(Related: Money, People, Football, Soccer, Stars)
"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Music, Words)
"I can never predict what's going to happen."
- Bryan Ferry
"I didn't really want to give up music."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Music, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Day, Promotion)
"I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure."
- Bryan Ferry
"I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Thought)
"I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there."
- Bryan Ferry
"I like the fact that music is more abstract."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Music, Fact)
"I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Name)
"Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Words)
"I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Wife)
"Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Music, Question)
"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
(Related: Love, Day, France, Memories, Paris)
"I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Moments)
"It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: People, Failure, Sound)
"It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue."
- Bryan Ferry
"I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Day, Songs)
"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
(Related: Boston, Chicago)
"I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: 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
(Related: Feelings)