Morrissey Quotes

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I always thought being famous was the only thing worth doing in human life, and anything else was just perfunctory. I thought anonymity was easy: it was easy to be a simple, nodding individual who got on the bus. I wasn't terribly impressed by obscurity.

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I left my fingerprints somewhere — that's good enough. I am my own person — that's good enough. I stand my ground — that's good enough.

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I know I've reached the stage where other artists would bleach their hair or buy a fancy costume, but, inexcusably, I can only be me, which is a full-time occupation and causes terrible backaches.

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The only contact I ever made with the dead was when I spoke to a journalist from the Sun.

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I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now.

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

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I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now.

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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.

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

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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.

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

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I believe that everything went downhill from the moment McDonald's was given a licence to invade England... To me, it was like the outbreak of war and I couldn't understand why English troops weren't retaliating.

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

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