Morrissey Quotes

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.
And I just can't explain ... so I won't even try to.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

And what do YOU like in life?' [the priest] asks me, ready to play the patronising game at my expense in order to raise a giggle from the rest of the class, thus rendering him popular for a few perverse minutes. 'Mott The Hoople,' I answer truthfully.

Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

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.

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.

Another form of church, football was all that stood between earth and God.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

If a double decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Oh the pleasure, the prvilige is mine

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

The US goverment proudly boasted Zero Tolerance and implemented the scheme with zero intelligence

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

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.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle.

Only classical composers were known by just their surnames, and this suited my mudlark temperament quite nicely.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate ...

Miss Redmond is aging, and will never marry, and will die smelling of attics.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

the search for a listener is fruitless.

Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me?

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

You say: 'Oh, please forgive'
You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'
But sorry doesn't help us.
Sorry will not save us.
Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).
Sorry doesn't help us.
Sorry won't protect us.
Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.

Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

They were postmodernism up the pole.

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

We Irish Catholics know very well how raucous happiness displeases God, so there is much evidence of guilt in all we say and do, but nonetheless it is said and done.

You are bound to pick up influences.

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.

I'm a traditionalist.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

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

The music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism,

There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

As Antony said to Cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale;
Oh I say, some girls are bigger than others.

I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

Unless I am with you I shall never be where I belong.

In mid-70s Manchester there must be obsessive love of vagina, otherwise your life dooms itself forever.

Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And trips you up and laugh when you fall

You made me feel less alone;
you made me feel not quite so
deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

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

I ask myself if there is an irresponsible aspect in relaying thoughts of pain as inspiration, and I wonder whether Housman actually infected the sensitives further, and pulled them back into additional darkness. Surely it is true that everything in the imagination seems worse than it actually is - especially when one is alone and horizontal (in bed, as in the coffin.) Housman was always alone - thinking himself to death, with no matronly wife to signal to the watching world that Alfred Edward was now quite alright - for isn't this at least partly the aim of scoring a partner: to trumpet the mental all-clear to a world where how things seem is far more important than how things are? Now snugly in eternity, Housman still occupies my mind. His best moments were in Art, and not in the cut and thrust of human relationships. Yet he said more about human relationships than those who managed to feast on them. You see, you can't have it both ways.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

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

It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.

Victim or life's adventurer - which of the two are you?

The theorists theorize without ever getting their feet wet.

Where, I wonder, can such stylishly fitted jeans be found?

It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.

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.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die

Life is a pigsty.

If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know

Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

America is not the world.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

In fact, his purity scared them off, and his honesty ignited irrational fear in an America where men were draped with medals for killing other men yet imprisoned for loving one another.

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

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

I understand feminism to be a social savior because it liberates everyone without exclusion, whereas masculinism damns itself by measuring a man's health by the amount of sexual gratification he receives.

Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap- for it does not need your approval, your organized banditry, your prepubescent social laws. your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority ... as if a presidential seat gives you intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain! Watch, wait, and listen, and soon you'll be bitten.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.

You're the one for me, fatty

You can't go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn't think heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn't think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that.

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.

The CD image remains heart-sinkingly abysmal compared to the majesty of the LP sleeve. These things count.

There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?

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

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

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

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

On the day that your mentality
Decides to catch up with your biology,
Come 'round

I'd love to...but only with you.

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

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

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

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

Hazel wears a beret, is 1940s skinny, speaks in a full whisper, drinks whiskey, smokes impressively, and holds the eye.

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.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

We watch in order to find ecstasy, for at last we can survive in someone else.

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