Steven Morrissey
Steven Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known only 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. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions...
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As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
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The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
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Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.
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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.
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I find shoes difficult to be ethical about...
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Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.
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Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
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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.
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But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.
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Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...