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“I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Normal #Los Angeles
“I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Done #Spirit #Wells
“I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Falling In Love #Love You #Memorable
“I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Thinking #Artist #Discovery
“I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Memorable #Controversial #Easy
“I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Dream #Song #People
“Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Memorable #Hair #Long
“The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Records #Maps #Labels
“I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Memorable #Hair #Life Is
“Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Rock And Roll #Voice #Rocks
“You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Distance #Looks #Manage
“I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Thinking #Effort #Sound
“Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Artist #People #Cents
“The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Age #Levels #Lasts
“You are bound to pick up influences.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Influence
“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Tree #Parent #Trying
“Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Arcs
“The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Meaningful #Writing #Years
“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Heaven #Miserable #Hours
“Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Way #Ashes #Music Is
“Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Sunday #Everyday #Silent
“Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Nice #Shyness
“Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#War #Army #Weapons
“I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Marketing #Campaigns #Want
“It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Wish #England #Immigration
“I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Sides #Bright Side #Capable
“The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Fire #Essentials #Fame
“Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Catholic #Birth #Wells
“What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Morning #Memorable #Wish
“I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.”
-- Steven Morrissey

#Moving #Thinking #Today

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