"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."
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Steven Morrissey quotes (page 10 of 15)
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"Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last"
"It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all."
"Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag."
"Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard."
"I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now."
"I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you."
"Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life"
"When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone."
"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."
"There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?"
"I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself."
"We hate it when our friends become successful."
"I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist."
"You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong."
"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"
"I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine."
"I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!"
"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."
"I don't perform. Seals perform."