The Smiths Best Quotes

#1. 'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

Rob Sheffield

#2. You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.

Andy Rourke

#3. You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Rob Sheffield

#4. 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

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

Morrissey

#6. I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#7. I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.

Brandon Flowers

#8. When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

Andy Rourke

#9. The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. [In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

John Desmond Bernal

#11. 'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Alex Turner

#12. Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#13. 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

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

Morrissey

#15. I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

Oscar Isaac

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

James Mercer