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Morrissey [1959-0] English

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the indie rock band The Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987.

Communication, Famous, Finance, Patriotism, Sad, Wedding

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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.	Communication	101
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.		102
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.		103
I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.		104
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.		105
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.		106
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.		107
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.		108
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'.		109
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.		110
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.		111
I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.		112
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.		113
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?		114
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.		115
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.		116
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.		117
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.		118
I always seem to be singing against the grain.		119
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.		120
I know I will never have a hit single in America.		121
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.		122
Reggae is vile.		123
You are bound to pick up influences.		124
I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.		125
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.	Famous	126
I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.		201
I don't know what I am.		202
I feel undefinable actually.		203
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.		204
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.		205
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.		206
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.		207
I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.		208
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.		209
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.		210
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.		211
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.		212
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.		213
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.		214
If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.		215
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.		216
I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.		217
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.		218
Pop music has progressed.		219
I'm a traditionalist.		220
Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.		221
I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.		222
Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.		223
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.		224
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.		225
All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.		226
People don't like me.		301
The Queen is the ultimate dictator.		302
Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.		303
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.		304
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.		305
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.		306
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.		307
There's no such thing as good news in America.		308
It's always nice to receive a compliment.		309
For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.		310
I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.		311
I swim when I can but I don't work out.		312
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.	Finance, Sad	313
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.		314
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.		315
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.		316
Often I feel I say too much.		317
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.		318
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.		319
The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.		320
My talents do not lie in DIY.		321
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.		322
The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.		323
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.		324
I don't even know if I exist offstage.		325
I hated the royal wedding.	Wedding	326
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.		401
I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.		402
I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.		403
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.		404
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.		405
Killing a stag is like killing a child.		406
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.		407
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.		408
Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'		409
I still prefer horses to human beings.		410
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.		411
There has to reach a point where you've said enough.		412
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.		413
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.		414
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.		415
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.	Patriotism	416
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.		417
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.		418
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.		419
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.		420
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.		421
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.		422
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.		423
Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?		424
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.		425
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.		426
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.		501
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.		502
I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.		503
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.		504
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.		505
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.		506
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.		507
Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.		508
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.		509
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.		510

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