Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France,… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public. — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
“You finish listening to a song of Leonard's and you know he's said everything he had to say, he didn't let the song go… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
“She also asked him his views on marrige and monogamy given the imminent arrival of his second child with Suzanne. "I think marrying is for very very high minded people" he said. "It is a discipline of extreme severity. To really turn your back on all the other possibilities and all the other experiences of love,of passion,of ecstasy,and to determine… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share
“He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective” — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
“I had wonderful love but I did not give back wonderful love, I was unable to reply to their love. Because I was obsessed… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed. — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share
“It’s the first time I’ve really enjoyed dancing. I sometimes even forget I belong to an inferior race. The Twist is the greatest ritual… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
“What I mean by depression isn't just the blues, it's not just like a hangover from the weekend,or the girl didn't show up or… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music journalist disdain,… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old,… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
![“I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.” quote by Sylvie Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f43/sylvie-simmons-30238_backwards_i-love-tom-waits-for-the-same-reason-i-l_1813886.jpg)