Top 33 Quotes by Bryan Ferry

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

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.

Performing was terrifying.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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