Latest Bryan Ferry Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Bryan Ferry

  Years, Musical, May

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

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  Thinking, Dukes, Embrace

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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.

  Bryan Ferry

  Jobs, Father, Hands

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

  Bryan Ferry

  Daddy, Puff, Steps

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

• 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.

  Bryan Ferry

  Track, Together, Sound

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

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  Player, Track, Interesting

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

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  Starting Out, Starting, Hard

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

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  Serious, Bits

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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

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  People, Sometimes, Stage

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

• 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.

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  Perspective, Giving, Different

  "An Unsettling Creation". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

• 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.

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  Home, Piano, Machines

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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

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  Home, Play, Piano

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

• 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.

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  Song, Interesting, Needs

  "An Unsettling Creation". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

• 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.

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  Song, Mean, Bored

  "Bryan Ferry's Live Act". Interview with Michael Hafford, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

• 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.

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  Country, House, London

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2014.

• 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.”

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  Song, Fall, Rain

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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

  Bryan Ferry

  Years, Sometimes, Hundred

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

• 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.

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  Song, Nice, One Day

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2014.

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

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  Eight, Age, Littles

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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

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  Writing, Done, Orchestra

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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

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  College, People, Singing

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.