Top 250 Steven Morrissey Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.”

— Steven Morrissey

102. “They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.”

— Steven Morrissey

103. “Animals are nicer than humans and they’re conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?”

— Steven Morrissey

104. “Although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.”

— Steven Morrissey

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105. “The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher’s assassin.”

— Steven Morrissey

106. “I don’t perform. Seals perform.”

— Steven Morrissey

107. “I spend every day apologizing or saying the wrong thing, and I am born sorry.”

— Steven Morrissey

108. “If you love animals, obviously it doesn’t make sense to hurt them.”

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109. “Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.”

— Steven Morrissey

110. “With the world’s fate resting on your shoulder – you’re gonna need someone on your side. You can’t do it by yourself any longer – you’re gonna need someone on your side.”

— Steven Morrissey

111. “Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.”

— Steven Morrissey

112. “Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.”

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113. “Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.”

— Steven Morrissey

114. “It’s so shameful of me: I like you.”

— Steven Morrissey

115. “Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

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117. “These tears I’m wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I’ve been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.”

— Steven Morrissey

118. “The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite – ever.”

— Steven Morrissey

119. “I don’t iron anything. Never have and never will.”

— Steven Morrissey

120. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

121. “He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody’s interested. He should just go away.”

— Steven Morrissey

122. “The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.”

— Steven Morrissey

123. “I smoke ’cos I’m hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.”

— Steven Morrissey

124. “I’m not very good at being dull.”

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125. “Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes.”

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126. “Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”

— Steven Morrissey

127. “Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.”

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128. “One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.”

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129. “Hold on to your friends. Resist – or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends.”

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130. “I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone’s sweetie.”

— Steven Morrissey

131. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

132. “There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?”

— Steven Morrissey

133. “I find Christmas very difficult.”

— Steven Morrissey

134. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

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135. “Even now – in the final hour of my life – I’m falling in love again.”

— Steven Morrissey

136. “What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.”

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137. “I’m just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.”

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138. “My love, wherever you are – whatever you are – don’t lose faith. I know it’s gonna happen someday to you.”

— Steven Morrissey

139. “It’s the refuge for the mentally deficient. It’s made by dull people for dull people.”

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140. “I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.”

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141. “Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?”

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142. “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?”

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143. “Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”

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144. “With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.”

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145. “I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.”

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146. “If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”

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147. “If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know.”

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148. “I’ve been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.”

— Steven Morrissey

149. “Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money.”

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150. “On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come ’round.”

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