Top 100 Steven Morrissey Quotes
#1. If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.
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#2. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
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#5. I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
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#7. Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.
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#8. As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
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#10. I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.
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#11. Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.
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#13. I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
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#15. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
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#16. I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.
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#17. I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
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#18. I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.
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#19. Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.
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#21. Unfortunately, I am not homosexual ... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.
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#23. There's a club, if you'd like to go You could meet somebody who really loves you.' So you go, and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home, and you cry And you want to die.
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#24. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
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#25. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England
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#27. [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.
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#29. He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.
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#30. I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.
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#31. There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason ... She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.
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#33. People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.
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#34. I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.
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#36. I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.
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#37. I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living
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#43. Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.
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#44. Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?
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#45. Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
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#46. He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
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#47. Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need
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#48. When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!
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#49. I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.
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#51. I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.
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#53. If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple
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#54. I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?
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#55. I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.
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#56. I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.
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#57. Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno ...
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#58. Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
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#59. They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.
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#60. I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.
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#61. He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.
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#62. The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.
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#63. 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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#65. Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.
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#66. The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.
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#67. I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).
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#68. 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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#69. I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.
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#70. Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.
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#71. I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
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#72. Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you
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#73. Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money
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#74. GQ: "Who'll be the first of the Smiths to die?" M: "Me. I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.
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#76. When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
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#77. All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.
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#78. Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.
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#81. I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.
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#82. It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
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#84. I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you're quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life's many nasty tricks.
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#85. In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?
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#86. I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.
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#87. With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.
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#88. Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
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#90. Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!
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#91. I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.
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#92. I can smell burning flesh ... and I hope to God it's human.
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#95. These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
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#96. I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
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#97. I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
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#98. Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way ... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
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#99. Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.
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#100. The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
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