Robert Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.”
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“Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.”
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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 anyone to know who I was.”
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“You don't really know a song until you play it live.”
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“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”
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“I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.”
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“Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.”
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“I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.”
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“The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.”
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“I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.”
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“I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.”
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“I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.”
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“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, the things they've done over the years.”
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“I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.”
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“Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.”
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“I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.”
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“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 counter.”
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“I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.”
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“I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.”
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“I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.”
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“When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'”
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“If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.”
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“I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'”
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“I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.”
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“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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“I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.”
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“I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.”
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“When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”
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“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 on someone else.”
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“It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.”
-- Robert Smith
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