Top 40 Bryan Ferry Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Bryan Ferry

2. “It’s nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.”

— Bryan Ferry

3. “I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.”

— Bryan Ferry

4. “As you get older, you get a bit more serious.”

— Bryan Ferry

5. “You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that’s the price of love.”

— Bryan Ferry

6. “Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?”

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

9. “I like the name Atomic Kitten. It’s so great.”

— Bryan Ferry

10. “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

11. “Performing was terrifying.”

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

13. “You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”

— Bryan Ferry

14. “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

15. “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

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

— Bryan Ferry

17. “And Mary J. Blige, she’s got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She’s good; I like her.”

— Bryan Ferry

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Sometimes you’re quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.”

— Bryan Ferry

21. “I’ve had quite a few moments I’ve liked, so it’s good enough.”

— Bryan Ferry

22. “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

23. “It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”

— Bryan Ferry

24. “I don’t think I’ve ever played the Olympia before, but I’m not totally sure.”

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

26. “It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.”

— Bryan Ferry

27. “I can never predict what’s going to happen.”

— Bryan Ferry

28. “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

29. “Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.”

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

31. “Women! I have no idea. I don’t know anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me.”

— Bryan Ferry

32. “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

33. “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

34. “I will be putting out a fragrance – I’m following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.”

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Bryan Ferry

36. “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

37. “I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.”

— Bryan Ferry

38. “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

39. “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

40. “I didn’t really want to give up music.”

— Bryan Ferry

41. “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

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

— Bryan Ferry

43. “I’ve done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.”

— Bryan Ferry

44. “Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!”

— Bryan Ferry

45. “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