Top 25 Johnny Marr Quotes (2024 Update)

Johnny Marr Quote: “The reason I don’t drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it’s sensible or that I’m contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I’m making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”

1. “The reason I don’t drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it’s sensible or that I’m contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I’m making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I didn’t form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.”

2. “I didn’t form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I’ve also been with the same girl, Angie, since I was 15.”

3. “I’ve also been with the same girl, Angie, since I was 15.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.”

4. “Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.”

5. “When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you cant make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.”

6. “I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you cant make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.”

— Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr Quote: “I’m not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don’t want to please them.”

7. “I’m not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don’t want to please them.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.”

8. “I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Don’t get me wrong, I think “Portlandia” is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where I can hang out in Powell’s Bookstore most nights and go out with my friends in a liberal, relaxed atmosphere. I wish more cities were like that.”

9. “Don’t get me wrong, I think “Portlandia” is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where I can hang out in Powell’s Bookstore most nights and go out with my friends in a liberal, relaxed atmosphere. I wish more cities were like that.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn’t really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn’t grow up there.”

10. “I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn’t really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn’t grow up there.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.”

11. “Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.”

12. “Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I really had a great time working with ‘Modest Mouse,’ just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I’ve worked with.”

13. “I really had a great time working with ‘Modest Mouse,’ just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I’ve worked with.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I’m concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.”

14. “I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I’m concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Some cities are really boring and straight.”

15. “Some cities are really boring and straight.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it’s slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It’s pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.”

16. “Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it’s slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It’s pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.”

17. “The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I don’t really care what music’s made on – I love guitars, but I’m fine with great electronic music.”

18. “I don’t really care what music’s made on – I love guitars, but I’m fine with great electronic music.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Earlier in my career, fans weren’t a big consideration for me.”

19. “Earlier in my career, fans weren’t a big consideration for me.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.”

20. “If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Anything that’s ever gotten on the charts as a result of “American Idol” or “The X Factor” in the UK. It’s born out of karaoke culture. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s absolutely affected radio.”

21. “Anything that’s ever gotten on the charts as a result of “American Idol” or “The X Factor” in the UK. It’s born out of karaoke culture. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s absolutely affected radio.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “What I thought was interesting about becoming vegetarian was when I stopped eating animals I really started to appreciate them much more. I discovered an empathy with animals and started noticing the serenity of cows in fields, and the beauty of horses, which brought a new and very welcome dimension to my world. It happened quickly and I was surprised. Fundamentally I realised that animals are innocent. My.”

22. “What I thought was interesting about becoming vegetarian was when I stopped eating animals I really started to appreciate them much more. I discovered an empathy with animals and started noticing the serenity of cows in fields, and the beauty of horses, which brought a new and very welcome dimension to my world. It happened quickly and I was surprised. Fundamentally I realised that animals are innocent. My.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. Its not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.”

23. “As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. Its not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.”

24. “Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.”

25. “I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn’t necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.”

26. “In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn’t necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.”

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Johnny Marr Quote: “We went inside, and I knew the guitar was special before I even touched it. Seymour bought the guitar for me, and I carried it back to the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street. When I got to my room, i took my new 355 out of its old, beat-up case, and with the very first thing I played I wrote our next single “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”, then the B-Side “Girl Afraid”. That’s what happens with some instruments. They already have music inside them.”

27. “We went inside, and I knew the guitar was special before I even touched it. Seymour bought the guitar for me, and I carried it back to the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street. When I got to my room, i took my new 355 out of its old, beat-up case, and with the very first thing I played I wrote our next single “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”, then the B-Side “Girl Afraid”. That’s what happens with some instruments. They already have music inside them.”

— Johnny Marr

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