Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Morrissey - Page 2

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

Often I feel I say too much.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

People don't like me.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

Pop music has progressed.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I'm a traditionalist.

The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.