"I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson……" — Robert Smith
"I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them."
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85 Quotes by Robert Smith
Robert Smith has 85 quotes on this site.
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me.…
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want…
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My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or…
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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,…
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending…
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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot…
— Gerard Arpey
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be…
— Jeff Bezos
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The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
— Tom Brady
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I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead…
— Tom Brady
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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of…
— John Cleese
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of…
— Trey Hardee
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Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate…
— Donald Keough
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In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.
— Unknown Author
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out…
— Jeff Bezos
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You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the…
— Rupert Murdoch
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is…
— Pat Summitt
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