Johnny Marr Quotes

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• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because…
• You've got to understand that. We all look out for Morrissey. It's a very brotherly feeling. When we first rehearsed, I'd have done anything for…
• When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing…
• I've run all the bands I've been in. A great front man needs that other person. It's not enough to have a guy with a…
• I am very proud of the fact that 20 years  on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is…
• The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.
• I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.
• I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.
• Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting…
• I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt…
• Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.
• You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.
• I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until…

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