110+ Steven Morrissey Quotes On Education, Melancholic And Quirky

Steven Morrissey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and author. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the frontman of the alternative rock band The Smiths. He has since pursued a successful solo career, releasing 11 studio albums and numerous compilations. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Steven Morrissey on education, life, love.

Top 10 Steven Morrissey Quotes

1. Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
2. I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
3. It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.
4. I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
5. Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
6. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
7. He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
8. 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?
9. Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
10. One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

Steven Morrissey Short Quotes

• It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
• And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station
• Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
• I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.
• Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.
• I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
• I hated the royal wedding.
• Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
• Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.
• I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

Steven Morrissey Quotes About Life

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ? — Steven Morrissey

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life). — Steven Morrissey

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. — Steven Morrissey

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more. — Steven Morrissey

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? — Steven Morrissey

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

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life". — Steven Morrissey

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem. — Steven Morrissey

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing. — Steven Morrissey

Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again. — Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Quotes About Love

I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer. — Steven Morrissey

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple — Steven Morrissey

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success. — Steven Morrissey

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you — Steven Morrissey

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

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

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

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

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

Steven Morrissey Quotes About Music

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there. — Steven Morrissey

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. — Steven Morrissey

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. — Steven Morrissey

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

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres. — Steven Morrissey

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up. — Steven Morrissey

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. — Steven Morrissey

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. — Steven Morrissey

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you. — Steven Morrissey

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Quotes About People

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. — Steven Morrissey

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing. — Steven Morrissey

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world. — Steven Morrissey

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit. — Steven Morrissey

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

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. — Steven Morrissey

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

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

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

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need — Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Quotes About Live

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. — Steven Morrissey

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds. — Steven Morrissey

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living. — Steven Morrissey

You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong. — Steven Morrissey

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something. — Steven Morrissey

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens. — Steven Morrissey

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began — Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living. — Steven Morrissey

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all. — Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Quotes About Absolutely

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. — Steven Morrissey

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'. — Steven Morrissey

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? — Steven Morrissey

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word. — Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Famous Quotes And Sayings

The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you — Steven Morrissey

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die. — Steven Morrissey

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

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

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place. — Steven Morrissey

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian. — Steven 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. — Steven Morrissey

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you. — Steven Morrissey

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry. — Steven Morrissey

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time. — Steven 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. — Steven Morrissey

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy. — Steven Morrissey

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

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society. — Steven Morrissey

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. — Steven 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. — Steven Morrissey

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed. — Steven Morrissey

We Hate William and Kate — Steven Morrissey

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

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time. — Steven Morrissey

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

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. — Steven Morrissey

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

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life — Steven Morrissey

I find Christmas very difficult. — Steven Morrissey

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England. — Steven Morrissey

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout. — Steven Morrissey

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate. — Steven Morrissey

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

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came. — Steven Morrissey

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to. — Steven Morrissey

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs. — Steven Morrissey

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul. — Steven Morrissey

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention! — Steven Morrissey

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

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low. — Steven Morrissey

And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am — Steven Morrissey

It's so shameful of me: I like you. — Steven Morrissey

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

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go? — Steven Morrissey

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

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'. — Steven Morrissey

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'. — Steven Morrissey

There is no such thing in life as normal. — Steven Morrissey

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks. — Steven Morrissey

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world. — Steven Morrissey

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

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong. — Steven Morrissey

He [Elton John] 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

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else. — Steven Morrissey

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle. — Steven Morrissey

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in! — Steven Morrissey

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face. — Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt... — Steven Morrissey

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone. — Steven Morrissey

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever. — Steven Morrissey

Most people keep their brains between their legs. — Steven Morrissey

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

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. — Steven Morrissey

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother. — Steven Morrissey

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine. — Steven Morrissey

Life Lessons by Steven Morrissey

1. Steven Morrissey's work demonstrates the importance of staying true to yourself and your beliefs, no matter what the cost.
2. He has shown us that it is ok to be different and to challenge the status quo, even if it is unpopular.
3. Through his music, Morrissey has taught us that it is important to stay passionate and to never give up on our dreams.