Morrissey

Morrissey

"I hated the royal wedding."
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"I hated the royal wedding."
Morrissey
"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."
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
"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."
Morrissey
"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity."
Morrissey
"What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't."
Morrissey
"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
"The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something."
Morrissey
"I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at."
Morrissey
"Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death."
Morrissey
"The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless."
Morrissey
"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."
Morrissey
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
Morrissey
"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
"You made me feel less alone You made me feel not quite so Deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked Are you aware wherever you are That you have just died?"
Morrissey
"It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
Morrissey
"Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be."
Morrissey
"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."
Morrissey
"I want fame now, not after I'm dead."
Morrissey
"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
Morrissey
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