Morrissey Quotes

Morrissey

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 22, 1959

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

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There's no such thing as good news in America.

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For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

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I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

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

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My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

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I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

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The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

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I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

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The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.

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I don't even know if I exist offstage.

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I hated the royal wedding.

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I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

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I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

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I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

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Killing a stag is like killing a child.

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As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

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I still prefer horses to human beings.

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

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Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

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