The Smiths Quotes
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There is no such thing in life as normal
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The reports of my death have been greatly understated.
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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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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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I think the main thing is that I very rarely recognise the actual interview in print. To me, it's like being painted by an artist. And then you see the picture, and they've painted someone else.
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My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
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Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags,But we've something they'll never have
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CH: Have you told many fibs today? M: I lie a lot - it's really useful - but everything I've said today has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me... er... Trevor...
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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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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.I want to live and I want to love.I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.
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I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.
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The British judiciary continues to label animal protectionists as 'extremists', whilst being unable to consider the Holocaust carnage inside every abattoir to be extreme.
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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.
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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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I've been dreaming of a time whenThe English are sick to death of Labour and ToriesAnd spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes himAnd will salute him forever.
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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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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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I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.
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Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
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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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M: I don't have relationships at all. It's out of the question. NK: Why? M: Partly because I was always attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to women or men who were attracted to me. So that's the problem. I've never met the right person.
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Hello you little charmers... We're The Smiths...
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Most people keep their brains between their legs