Morrissey Quotes

Morrissey

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 22, 1959

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Morrissey

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Morrissey

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

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I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Morrissey

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

Morrissey

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Morrissey

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Morrissey

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.

Morrissey

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

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

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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

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That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

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

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If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

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

Morrissey

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

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I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

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You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

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I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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