Morrissey Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
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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…
— Johnny Marr
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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…
— Johnny Marr
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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
— Elvis Costello
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Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way.…
— Rob Sheffield
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
— Nancy Sinatra
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Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts…
— Nancy Sinatra
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever…
— Zach Galifianakis
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I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has…
— Steven Morrissey
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
— Zooey Deschanel
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At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught,…
— Paul Merton
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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…
— Robert Smith
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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
— Rob Sheffield
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The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and…
— Steven Patrick Morrissey
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
— James Mercer
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
— Lara Stone
Who Wrote These Morrissey Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 17 Morrissey Quotes as follows: