Morrissey Quotes & Sayings

I still prefer horses to human beings. — Morrissey

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths. — Morrissey

Cats will be cats. — Morrissey

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public. — Morrissey

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. — Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state. — Morrissey

We watch in order to find ecstasy, for at last we can survive in someone else. — 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

Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe. — Morrissey

Chrissie could make people laugh at the funeral of triplets. — Morrissey

In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living - here my voice in your head and think of me kindly — Morrissey

I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid. — Morrissey

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore! — Morrissey

The unresolved heart worked against him in life, but it connected him to the world of poetry, where he allowed (in)complete strangers under his skin. — Morrissey

Another form of church, football was all that stood between earth and God. — Morrissey

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself. — Morrissey

America is not the world. — Morrissey

My talents do not lie in DIY. — Morrissey

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Morrissey

There's no such thing as good news in America. — Morrissey

The Smiths is right there, insubordinates of an accidental moment in days when there is no sign anywhere of independent artists or a disconnected view. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you. — Morrissey

The Queen is the ultimate dictator. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives. — Morrissey

I want fame now, not after I'm dead. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status. — Morrissey

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform ... and so you think you can be rude to me. — Morrissey

The music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism, — Morrissey

Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me? — Morrissey

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies. — Morrissey

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
And look around ... can you blame us?! — Morrissey

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry. — Morrissey

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it. — Morrissey

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

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you. — Morrissey

Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others. Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out.(...)She will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity. — Morrissey

Only classical composers were known by just their surnames, and this suited my mudlark temperament quite nicely. — Morrissey

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die — Morrissey

there is no such thing as patient wisdom to be found in the sharp agony of the teachers. — Morrissey

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey

David [Bowie] quietly tells me, 'You know, I've had so much sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive,' and I loudly tell him, 'You know, I've had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive. — Morrissey

I hated the royal wedding. — Morrissey

sings in the background like a big bale of black coming towards me through moorland mist. — Morrissey

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you. — Morrissey

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

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye? — Morrissey

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. — Morrissey

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

These were times when all were judged squarely and fairly on their musical tastes, and a personal music collection read as private medical records. — Morrissey

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Morrissey

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. — Morrissey

Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour? — Morrissey

I don't know what I am. — Morrissey

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true. — Morrissey

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle. — Morrissey

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make. — Morrissey

Pop music has progressed. — Morrissey

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders. — Morrissey

Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll. — Morrissey

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at. — Morrissey

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. — Morrissey

On the day that your mentality
Decides to catch up with your biology,
Come 'round — Morrissey

I don't mind if you forget me.
Having learned my lesson,
I never left an impression on anyone. — Morrissey

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

You can't go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn't think heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn't think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that. — Morrissey

I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman's hands are at her throat. — Morrissey

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. — Morrissey

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm — Morrissey

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine ... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

I'd rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp. — Morrissey

In fact, his purity scared them off, and his honesty ignited irrational fear in an America where men were draped with medals for killing other men yet imprisoned for loving one another. — 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

It begins in the heart ... and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true. — Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious. — Morrissey

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. — Morrissey

I am hated for loving.
I am haunted for wanting. — Morrissey

Isn't sex the one and only reason why all of us are actually alive? — Morrissey

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. — Morrissey

The heart has a heart of its own. — Morrissey

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear. — Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences. — Morrissey

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny. — Morrissey

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. — Morrissey

I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist. — Morrissey

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. — Morrissey

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