93 Quotes & Sayings By Morrissey

Morrissey is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter for the American rock band The Smiths. He also had a solo career, and in 1984 released the album Viva Hate. He was ranked at #24 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers and Songwriters of All Time list, and at #93 on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On October 27, 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Smiths.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and...
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Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up. Morrissey
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Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. Morrissey
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of...
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Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head. Morrissey
I can chase you, and I can catch you, but...
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I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. Morrissey
There's so much destruction all over the world - and...
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There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME! Morrissey
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK...
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Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense. Morrissey
I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a...
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I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist. Morrissey
I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
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I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine. Morrissey
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope,...
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Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm Morrissey
You're not right in the head, and nor am I,...
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You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you. Morrissey
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I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does. Morrissey
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool...
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Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel. Morrissey
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour,...
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I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now. Morrissey
I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my...
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I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone. Morrissey
To me you are a work of art, and I...
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To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. Morrissey
It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true....
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It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true. Morrissey
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your...
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I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong. Morrissey
In my life Why do I give valuable time To...
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In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ? Morrissey
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If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall. Morrissey
God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the...
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God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care! Morrissey
I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships...
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I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic. Morrissey
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I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things. Morrissey
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and...
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With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. Morrissey
With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're...
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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. Morrissey
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Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! Morrissey
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Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. 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 organised 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 an intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain! . Morrissey
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How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME. Morrissey
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Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true. Morrissey
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I'd love to...but only with you. Morrissey
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The heart has a heart of its own. Morrissey
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I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting. Morrissey
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Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? Morrissey
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The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time. Morrissey
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I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself. Morrissey
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I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me. Morrissey
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My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you. Morrissey
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It's so shameful of me: I like you. Morrissey
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Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste. Morrissey
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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. Morrissey
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And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? Morrissey
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Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you. Morrissey
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I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead! Morrissey
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You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong. Morrissey
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I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. Morrissey
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Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life Morrissey
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Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me. Morrissey
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Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you. Morrissey
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You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked. Morrissey
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These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love. Morrissey
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This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores. Morrissey
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There's a club, if you'd like to go You could meet somebody who really loves you.' So you go, and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home, and you cry And you want to die. Morrissey
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I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love. Morrissey
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Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again. Morrissey
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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. Morrissey
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I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now. Morrissey
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Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low. Morrissey
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When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy wayand give in! Morrissey
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They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy. Morrissey
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Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends Morrissey
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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? Morrissey
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Life is a pigsty. Morrissey
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We hate it when our friends become successful. Morrissey
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Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around. ..can you blame us?! Morrissey
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Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore! Morrissey
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Why don't you find out for yourself? Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass. Morrissey
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Some girls are bigger than others. Morrissey
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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. Morrissey
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Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive. Morrissey
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This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul. Morrissey
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I want fame now, not after I'm dead. Morrissey
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The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely. Morrissey
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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. Morrissey
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Cats will be cats. Morrissey
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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
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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
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It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind Morrissey
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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
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else. Morrissey
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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
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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. Morrissey
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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
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The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. Morrissey
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Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. Morrissey
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I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at. Morrissey
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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
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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
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What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't. Morrissey
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If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. Morrissey
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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
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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
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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
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I hated the royal wedding. Morrissey