Top 100 Morrissey Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
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#3. the search for a listener is fruitless.
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#4. I am very serious about my baby.
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#5. No heavenly choirs.
None for me and none for you.
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#6. In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way.
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#7. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.
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#8. In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?
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#9. I'd rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp.
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#10. The brain speculates but the heart knows.
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#11. I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
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#12. I know I will never have a hit single in America.
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#13. The laboring-class boys of grey flannel are instinctive in their behavior because they are, in fact, in possession of nothing at all other than instinct; science and diplomacy are tools unused.
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#14. Fifteen minutes with you Well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were virtually dead And they were so wrong
Fifteen minutes with you Oh, well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were easily led And they were half-right
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#15. England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
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#16. Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe.
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#17. Fields are places in books, and books are placed in libraries.
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#18. You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
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#19. In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
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#20. It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
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#21. If a double decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Oh the pleasure, the prvilige is mine
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#22. You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
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#23. I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
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#24. 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.
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#25. I see the world, it makes me puke,
But then I look at you and know,
that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
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#26. Victim or life's adventurer - which of the two are you?
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#27. He lives alone, unexcited, disinterested, world-weary and ungiving, yet it is this dry-as-dust approach that makes him fascinating.
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#28. The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status.
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#29. Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.
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#30. Chrissie could make people laugh at the funeral of triplets.
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#32. Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
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#33. 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.
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#34. I'd love to...but only with you.
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#35. Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you.
Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
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#36. Where, I wonder, can such stylishly fitted jeans be found?
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#37. People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate ...
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#38. Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
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#39. We Irish Catholics know very well how raucous happiness displeases God, so there is much evidence of guilt in all we say and do, but nonetheless it is said and done.
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#40. A new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion.
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#41. Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?
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#42. Interviewer: Did you hear t.A.T.u's version of 'How Soon Is Now'?
Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Interviewer: They're the teenage Russian lesbians.
Morrissey: Well, aren't we all?
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#43. Only classical composers were known by just their surnames, and this suited my mudlark temperament quite nicely.
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#44. Why don't you find out for yourself?
Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.
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#45. sings in the background like a big bale of black coming towards me through moorland mist.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'
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#50. The music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism,
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#51. Catholicism has you tracked and trailed for life
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#52. It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.
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#53. It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).
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#54. All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.
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#55. If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
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#56. I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
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#57. Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
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#58. I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
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#59. I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.
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#60. It begins in the heart ... and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.
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#61. 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.
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#63. They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
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#64. You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why ... this is why I like you.
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#65. Could things get any worse? Why, yes, little one. Be patient.
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#66. The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.
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#67. Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.
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#68. For there are better sides to life
And I should know because I've seen them
But not very often
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#69. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.
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#70. My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.
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#71. I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
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#73. 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.
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#74. This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
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#75. Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.
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#76. I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
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#77. I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
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#78. A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand.
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#79. I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.
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#80. What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
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#81. The pain done to Housman allowed him to rise above the mediocre and to find the words that most of us need help in order to say. The price paid by Housman was a life alone; the righteous rhymer enduring each year unloved and unable to love:
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#82. Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
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#83. 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.
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#84. We watch in order to find ecstasy, for at last we can survive in someone else.
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#85. Hold on to your friends.
Resist - or move on
Be mad, be rash
Smoke and explode
Sell all of your clothes
Just bear in mind:
There just might come a time
When you need some friends
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#86. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
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#87. Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
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#88. 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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#89. With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.
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#90. Plainly I was not interested, being chosen but not chooser.
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#91. With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
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#92. Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman's hands are at her throat.
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#93. I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
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#94. I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
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#95. 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.
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#96. I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
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#97. I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
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#98. Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.
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#100. I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid.
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