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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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My main disappointment in not appearing in the 'Face to Face' video , at the time, would be… did you see how much makeup the boys were allowed to wear!
Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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My worry was if I hit the road unhappy, that I'd end up in jail or hospital again. It was saddening, but it was never a career move; I had no job to go to!
Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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We’re talking about a unit performance, trying to get the feel of a song, rehearsing beforehand, and crafting a song.
Peter Edward Clarke
