Bryan Ferry Quotes
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I can never predict what's going to happen.
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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.
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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
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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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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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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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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
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Performing was terrifying.
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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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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.
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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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