Morrissey Quotes

“David [Bowie] quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.”
― Morrissey

“Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.”
― Morrissey

“Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.”
― Morrissey

“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.”
― Morrissey

“Now I don't know why, but Morrissey had always hated Joy Division. Maybe Rob got it right when after a lively debate as the cameras were turned off he turned to Morrissey and said, 'The trouble with you, Morrissey, is that you've never had the guts to kill yourself like Ian. You're fucking jealous.' You should have seen his face as he stormed off. I laughed me bollocks off.”
― Peter Hook, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

“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?”
― Morrissey

“Unless I am with you I shall never be where I belong.”
― Morrissey, List of the Lost

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”
― Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

“Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap- for it does not need your approval, your organized banditry, your prepubescent social laws. your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority...as if a presidential seat gives you intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain! Watch, wait, and listen, and soon you'll be bitten.”
― Morrissey

“Do you ever get tired of singing "I,I,I,I,I,I,I"?'Jerry asks me.
'I?'is the indignant reply.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“There's more to life than books you know, but not much more”
― Morrissey

“Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.”
― William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel