Top 250 Steven Morrissey Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

202. “Dismissal can be a secret form of arrogance, and I held this proudly against the Stones until the light shifted and I caught myself being utterly wrong.”

— Steven Morrissey

203. “The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.”

— Steven Morrissey

204. “I’m dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!”

— Steven Morrissey

205. “Life’s incredibly boring. I don’t say that in an effort to seem vaguely amusing but the secret of life is that there’s no secret, it’s just exceedingly boring.”

— Steven Morrissey

206. “Miss Redmond is aging, and will never marry, and will die smelling of attics.”

— Steven Morrissey

207. “The arts translate life into film and literature and music and repeat a deadly poison: the monotonous in life must be protected at all costs.”

— Steven Morrissey

208. “I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.”

— Steven Morrissey

209. “You are bound to pick up influences.”

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210. “I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy’s lyrics were fearless, and I’m very grateful for all the risks that she took.”

— Steven Morrissey

211. “David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything; stripped of the notion that both art and life are impossible.”

— Steven Morrissey

212. “I still prefer horses to human beings.”

— Steven Morrissey

213. “Lou Reed is unimpressed by applause, and lives a life detached from custom. His stare is cold and his romanticism is brutal. His songs are half-sung melodies of menace. He might drop dead any second, and is therefore the real thing. Examined ravenously like a museum exhibit, Lou Reed is evidently spiked to excess, and strangely loveable.”

— Steven Morrissey

214. “I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn’t dream of it now.”

— Steven Morrissey

215. “Love at first sight, it may sound trite, but it’s true, you know.”

— Steven Morrissey

216. “I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion – it’s more romantic than sexual.”

— Steven Morrissey

217. “Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.”

— Steven Morrissey

218. “I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.”

— Steven Morrissey

219. “I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.”

— Steven Morrissey

220. “You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you’re doing, and I can manage that.”

— Steven Morrissey

221. “It is considered odd that a boy so young should care so much.”

— Steven Morrissey

222. “Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”

— Steven Morrissey

223. “That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.”

— Steven Morrissey

224. “But that’s life. Go first and be sure of a hard time.”

— Steven Morrissey

225. “I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family.”

— Steven Morrissey

226. “Nothing, I have decided, could waste precious life more than trigonometry and logarithms.”

— Steven Morrissey

227. “The heart has a heart of its own.”

— Steven Morrissey

228. “I always seem to be singing against the grain.”

— Steven Morrissey

229. “I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.”

— Steven Morrissey

230. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

231. “Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher’s name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.”

— Steven Morrissey

232. “I understand feminism to be a social savior because it liberates everyone without exclusion, whereas masculinism damns itself by measuring a man’s health by the amount of sexual gratification he receives.”

— Steven Morrissey

233. “All of us, ultimately, we’re not that interesting, when it comes down to it.”

— Steven Morrissey

234. “The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map – killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.”

— Steven Morrissey

235. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

236. “I am adrift. At 21, penniless in a world of plausible excuses, I am alone with my goals. These are difficult years, and if anything loving lay ahead I was already paying a large enough price. At my lowest in these years of signing on, I do not fit in anywhere with the family philosophy, and these days set the tempo of the times- even for the days when the sun re-enters the room. Travestied or not, you must just get through it.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

238. “I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.”

— Steven Morrissey

239. “Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it’s not really. It’s always a kind of gentle ballet.”

— Steven Morrissey

240. “No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.”

— Steven Morrissey

241. “I don’t think I’ve ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don’t see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I’m perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.”

— Steven Morrissey

242. “I never imagined I’d be a solo artist. And now I couldn’t imagine being part of a group.”

— Steven Morrissey

243. “Music, you see, is the key.”

— Steven Morrissey

244. “Well, I’m a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.”

— Steven Morrissey

245. “Unless I am with you I shall never be where I belong.”

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246. “Those Catholics, they really nab you when you’re young.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

248. “I am sexually disinterested in either the male or the feel-male – yet I make this claim on knowing almost nothing about either.”

— Steven Morrissey

249. “I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who’s be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.”

— Steven Morrissey

250. “I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he’s proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.”

— Steven Morrissey