Morrissey Quotes

Morrissey

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 22, 1959

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

Morrissey

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Morrissey

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Morrissey

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

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I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Morrissey

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

Morrissey

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

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Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Morrissey

Reggae is vile.

Morrissey

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

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I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

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

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Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

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I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

Morrissey

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

Morrissey

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

Morrissey

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

Morrissey

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

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It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

Morrissey