Top 100 Quotes About Morrissey
#1. How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
Morrissey
#2. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
Morrissey
#3. 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
#4. There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?
Morrissey
#5. Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.
Liz Hester
#6. I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
David Morrissey
#7. Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
Morrissey
#8. Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Rob Sheffield
#9. If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.
Steven Morrissey
#10. As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey.
Mike Joyce
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.
Morrissey
#14. My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
David Morrissey
#16. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
David Morrissey
#17. the search for a listener is fruitless.
Morrissey
#18. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
#22. I am very serious about my baby.
Morrissey
#23. I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
Steven Morrissey
#24. I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.
Morrissey
#25. 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
#26. No heavenly choirs.
None for me and none for you.
Morrissey
#27. In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way.
Morrissey
#28. British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.
Morrissey
#29. 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
#30. Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
David Morrissey
#31. There has to reach a point where you've said enough.
Morrissey
#32. It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
David Morrissey
#33. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.
Morrissey
#34. In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?
Morrissey
#36. Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.
Steven Morrissey
#37. Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
Morrissey
#38. 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
#39. We hate it when our friends become successful.
Morrissey
#40. 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
#41. I'd rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp.
Morrissey
#42. Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Morrissey
#43. I swim when I can but I don't work out.
Morrissey
#44. The brain speculates but the heart knows.
Morrissey
#45. I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.
Morrissey
#46. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
Morrissey
#47. I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
Morrissey
#48. wisdom must lie in a keen self-loathing.
Morrissey
#50. Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
Morrissey
#51. Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.
Morrissey
#52. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Morrissey
#53. 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
#54. I know I will never have a hit single in America.
Morrissey
#55. 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
#56. I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
Morrissey
#57. I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.
Steven Morrissey
#58. Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.
Morrissey
#59. Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!
Mary Morrissey
#60. 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
#61. But that's life. Go first and be sure of a hard time.
Morrissey
#62. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
Morrissey
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. 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
#70. Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.
Mark Simpson
#71. England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
Morrissey
#72. What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range.
Morrissey
#73. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
Steven Morrissey
#74. Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker
Morrissey
#76. 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
#77. Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.
Morrissey
#78. 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
#79. I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
Steven Morrissey
#80. If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!
Mary Morrissey
#81. Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe.
Morrissey
#82. I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
David Morrissey
#83. 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.
Steven Morrissey
#84. 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.
Steven Morrissey
#85. Fields are places in books, and books are placed in libraries.
Morrissey
#86. I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles.
Morrissey
#88. You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
Morrissey
#89. For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.
Morrissey
#90. Unfortunately, I am not homosexual ... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.
Steven Morrissey
#92. In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Morrissey
#93. 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.
Steven Morrissey
#94. It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Morrissey
#95. 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
#96. Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
Morrissey
#97. David [Bowie] quietly tells me, 'You know, I've had so much sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive,' and I loudly tell him, 'You know, I've had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive.
Morrissey
#98. Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
Morrissey
#99. If a double decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Oh the pleasure, the prvilige is mine
Morrissey
#100. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
Steven Morrissey
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