Morrissey The Smiths Quotes

#1. Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Jerome Robbins

#2. To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

Morrissey

#4. At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

Paul Merton

#5. When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.

Johnny Marr

#6. You are on my side," she says.
"What side is that?" I ask.
"The winning side," she says, and smiles. "The team of the artists."
"Who are we playing?"
"The barbarians," she says. "We are always playing them.

Jenny Hubbard

#7. California is always in my mind.

David Hockney

#8. I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

James Mercer

#9. God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze.

Katie McGarry

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

Morrissey

#11. GQ: "Who'll be the first of the Smiths to die?" M: "Me. I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

Steven Morrissey

#12. The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Morrissey

#13. We headed down a narrow flight of stairs that ended at a low arch. Beyond the arch was yet another murky room. Did these people have something against overhead lighting?

Rachel Hawkins

#14. Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Morrissey

#16. You can feel it all around. It's coming, and everything will break apart.

Cassandra Clare

#17. 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.

Morrissey

#18. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Clay Shirky

#19. For a child, parents' warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Morrissey

#21. Faith is found when one isn't looking for it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#22. The Smiths is right there, insubordinates of an accidental moment in days when there is no sign anywhere of independent artists or a disconnected view.

Morrissey

#23. Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Edmund Wilson

#24. Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Hunter S. Thompson

#25. It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind

Morrissey

#26. 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.

Steven Morrissey

#27. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

Mike Fitzpatrick