Bryan Ferry Quotes & Sayings

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. — Bryan Ferry

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there. — Bryan Ferry

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year. — Bryan Ferry

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

I didn't really want to give up music. — Bryan Ferry

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

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. — Bryan Ferry

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

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. — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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. — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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

Loneliness is a crowded room,
Full of open hearts turned to stone,
All together all alone — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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

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

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure. — Bryan Ferry

Loneliness is a crowded room. — Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records! — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Performing was terrifying. — Bryan Ferry

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me. — Bryan Ferry

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. — Bryan Ferry

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love. — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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

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

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? — Bryan Ferry

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

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

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. — Bryan Ferry

I like the fact that music is more abstract. — Bryan Ferry

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

As you get older, you get a bit more serious. — Bryan Ferry

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

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

I can never predict what's going to happen. — Bryan Ferry

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

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

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

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

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

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." — Bryan Ferry

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. — Bryan Ferry

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

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me. — Bryan Ferry

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

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