Marianne Faithfull Quotes

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.