The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, that's what you aim for. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
