We live in forgotten Victorian knife-plunging Manchester, where everything lies wherever it was left over one hundred years ago. The safe streets are dimly lit, the others not lit at all, but both represent a danger that you’re asking for should you find yourself out there once curtains have closed for tea.

— Steven Morrissey

Steven Morrissey Quotes

Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman’s hands are at her throat.

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

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

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

— Steven Morrissey

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

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

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

I want fame now, not after I’m dead.

— Steven Morrissey

No matter how high-speed the train, the frozen reflection in the window is the collapsed countenance of your own face staring back at you, unchanged with the fast-track passing of miles, questioning, questioning, questioning, like a second you – an inner you that there is nowhere to run.

— Steven Morrissey

In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way. These are the days when very few people collect records, so therefore whatever they might lay defines their secret heart.

— Steven Morrissey

I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid.

— Steven Morrissey

Plainly I was not interested, being chosen but not chooser.

— Steven Morrissey

Music, you see, is the key.

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

He lives alone, unexcited, disinterested, world-weary and ungiving, yet it is this dry-as-dust approach that makes him fascinating.

— Steven Morrissey

And earth is the cruelest place you will never understand.

— Steven Morrissey

There is no self-discovery in a safe life.

— Steven Morrissey

You can only wonder how those who lived in the sheltered white wooden houses pass their time, never changing, always the same, off-center if not immersed in family and reproduction and just getting through. All aspects of the outside world must be deemed negative in order to justify your reason for not joining it.

— Steven Morrissey

I turn books around and around in my hands like precious jewels... staggered that someone compiled 600 pages of tiny handwritten words in an Antwerp turret in1751. To me, its the ultimate achievement, and when I hear of the Cancel Vultures trying to rewrite the classics... the room goes dark.

— Steven Morrissey
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