Top 80 Robert Smith Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I’ve accepted it.”

— Robert Smith

52. “There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.”

— Robert Smith

53. “I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.”

— Robert Smith

54. “Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say ‘Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.’ It’s so dishonest.”

— Robert Smith

55. “Apart from the fact that I’ve got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don’t feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.”

— Robert Smith

56. “I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.”

— Robert Smith

57. “I’d like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it’d be nice in September or October.”

— Robert Smith

58. “If I put a value on my music, and no one’s prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can’t work.”

— Robert Smith

59. “In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that’s where the impossible wishes come into it.”

— Robert Smith

60. “I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.”

— Robert Smith

61. “I don’t dislike my peers because they’re still around and remind me of what I’m doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they’ve done over the years.”

— Robert Smith

62. “Both me and my wife’s extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it’s a homing instinct.”

— Robert Smith

63. “The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.”

— Robert Smith

64. “I wouldn’t want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.”

— Robert Smith

65. “But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.”

— Robert Smith

66. “When we started I wasn’t the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”

— Robert Smith

67. “I honestly don’t class myself as a songwriter. I’ve got ‘musician’ written on my passport. That’s even funnier.”

— Robert Smith

68. “I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else’s entertainment, not mine.”

— Robert Smith

69. “Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it’s just genes, isn’t it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don’t actually seem to get anywhere.”

— Robert Smith

70. “Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.”

— Robert Smith

71. “I’m not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn’t bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.”

— Robert Smith

72. “I don’t want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.”

— Robert Smith

73. “If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I’d disband the group immediately.”

— Robert Smith

74. “There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.”

— Robert Smith

75. “Each time I play a song it seems more real.”

— Robert Smith

76. “If you acquiesce to one interview, there’s always another waiting in the wings. Also if you’re interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don’t like to do that.”

— Robert Smith

77. “I don’t find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.”

— Robert Smith

78. “It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they’re good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.”

— Robert Smith

79. “Whenever I’m home, I haven’t got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.”

— Robert Smith

80. “For a period in the ’90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There’s a bunch of newer bands coming up who’ve grown up listening to the Cure and don’t understand that you’re not supposed to like us.”

— Robert Smith

81. “Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.”

— Robert Smith

82. “Reading is something I’ve really missed, not being able to enter people’s worlds.”

— Robert Smith

83. “I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.”

— Robert Smith

84. “Performing doesn’t come that naturally to me, even though I’ve done it for years.”

— Robert Smith

85. “Whatever words I say I will always love you.”

— Robert Smith

86. “I don’t care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don’t care if we’re perceived as relevant. We’re never worried how we fit in. I don’t even want to fit in.”

— Robert Smith