Robert Smith Quotes

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• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
• Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
• I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I…
• My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
• I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and…
• No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
• The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
• You don't really know a song until you play it live.
• Each time I play a song it seems more real.
• I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
• Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
• I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life…
• I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
• I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the…
• I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.
• I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2,…
• Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
• A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

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