Bryan Ferry Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

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

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

Performing was terrifying.

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

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

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.

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

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

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

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.

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.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

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.

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

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.

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 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 L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

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

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 [Bob] Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."

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

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.

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.

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 had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.