Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Morrissey
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
I hated the royal wedding.
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.
I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
I swim when I can but I don't work out.
That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
It's always nice to receive a compliment.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.
I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
I always seem to be singing against the grain.
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.
I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
I don't know what I am.
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
I know I will never have a hit single in America.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
I feel undefinable actually.
Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Reggae is vile.
You are bound to pick up influences.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
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