Quotes About Morrissey

#1. Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Rob Sheffield

#2. As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey.

Mike Joyce

#3. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

Nancy Sinatra

#4. I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

David Bowie

#5. Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.

Mark Simpson

#6. That Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

Maeve Binchy

#7. I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

Andy Rourke

#8. We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

Zach Galifianakis

#9. I'm much more interested in Mike Tyson than I am in Morrissey.

Ian Astbury

#10. 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.

Morrissey

#11. Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.

Jen Kirkman

#12. 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?

Morrissey

#13. The girl at Great Cuts asked him what style he wanted, and he told her that he wanted hair like Morrissey.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

Elvis Costello

#15. There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

Mark Simpson

#16. Let the right one in Let the old dreams die Let the wrong ones go They cannot do What you want them to do - Morrissey, Let the Right One Slip In

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#17. In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. - Morrissey, The Last of the Famous International Playboys

Maureen Johnson

#18. I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

Lara Stone

#19. Every one of Joel's important songs
including the happy ones
are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Robert Smith

#21. I've always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano, so I write really melancholy lyrics and melodies

Blake Lewis

#22. Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Nancy Sinatra

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

James Mercer

#24. I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

Zooey Deschanel

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

Morrissey

#28. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

#29. 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.

Morrissey

#30. There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?

Morrissey

#31. Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.

Liz Hester

#32. I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

David Morrissey

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

Morrissey

#34. If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

Steven Morrissey

#35. The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

David Morrissey

#36. 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.

Steven Morrissey

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

Morrissey

#38. My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

David Morrissey

#39. You are a work of art.

Steven Morrissey

#40. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

David Morrissey

#41. the search for a listener is fruitless.

Morrissey

#42. I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

Steven Morrissey

#43. Why are you doing this?

Morrissey

#44. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Steven Morrissey

#45. I am very serious about my baby.

Morrissey

#46. I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

Steven Morrissey

#47. I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

Morrissey

#48. No heavenly choirs.
None for me and none for you.

Morrissey

#49. In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way.

Morrissey

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

Morrissey

#51. 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.

Morrissey

#52. Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

David Morrissey

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

Morrissey

#54. It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

David Morrissey

#55. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.

Morrissey

#56. In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

Morrissey

#57. Life is very long, when you're lonely

Steven Morrissey

#58. Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Steven Morrissey

#59. Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Morrissey

#60. 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.

Morrissey

#61. We hate it when our friends become successful.

Morrissey

#62. 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.

Steven Morrissey

#63. I'd rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp.

Morrissey

#64. Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Morrissey

#65. I swim when I can but I don't work out.

Morrissey

#66. The brain speculates but the heart knows.

Morrissey

#67. I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

Morrissey

#68. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

Morrissey

#69. I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Morrissey

#70. wisdom must lie in a keen self-loathing.

Morrissey

#71. There is no such thing in life as normal

Steven Morrissey

#72. Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

Morrissey

#73. Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.

Morrissey

#74. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

Morrissey

#75. That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Morrissey

#76. I know I will never have a hit single in America.

Morrissey

#77. 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.

Morrissey

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

Morrissey

#79. I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

Steven Morrissey

#80. Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Morrissey

#81. Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!

Mary Morrissey

#82. 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.

Steven Morrissey

#83. But that's life. Go first and be sure of a hard time.

Morrissey

#84. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Morrissey

#85. Most people keep their brains between their legs

Steven Morrissey

#86. 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.

Morrissey

#87. 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.

Morrissey

#88. 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

#89. 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

Morrissey

#90. Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Steven Morrissey

#91. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#92. England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

Morrissey

#93. What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range.

Morrissey

#94. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Steven Morrissey

#95. Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker

Morrissey

#96. Liverpool will always be my home.

David Morrissey

#97. 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.

Steven Morrissey

#98. Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

Morrissey

#99. Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#100. I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

Steven Morrissey