Morrissey Quotes
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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Music that is in the charts today is quite dreadful. I find it a great honour that I have never been considered for awards, such as NME etc. It is a personal victory. All awards shows should be banned!
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I know I've reached the stage where other artists would bleach their hair or buy a fancy costume, but, inexcusably, I can only be me, which is a full-time occupation and causes terrible backaches.
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It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
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You shut your mouth,How can you say I go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does
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I find Christmas very difficult
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Because he (Elton John) is pushing his face in all the time, and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested, he's incredibly rich, he should just go away, and he's just hoisting his problems onto everybody and working them out publicly and...I've said enough.
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Last night I dreamtThat somebody loved meNo hope, no harmJust another false alarmLast night I feltReal arms around meNo hope, no harmJust another false alarmSo, tell me how longBefore the last one?And tell me how longBefore the right one?The story is old - I knowBut it goes onThe story is old - I knowBut it goes onOh, goes onAnd onOh, goes onAnd on
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GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'
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I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.
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There is no such thing in life as normal
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I'll try to sing as fast as I can, I know you all can't wait to see U2.
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The reports of my death have been greatly understated.
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TF: At which point did you stop being celibate, why and who with? M: I don't see how anyone would benefit from seeing that kind of information in print. Least of all me.
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Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'
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Oh, the alcoholic afternoonswhen we sat in your roomthey meant more to methan any, than any living thing on earth
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DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?
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So when you say it's gonna happen now.Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone!
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DK: Have you ever been to a rave? M: Rave is the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
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In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
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I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
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And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.And neither one particularly appeals to me.