“For the first time in too long a time, this is real music played by real people. The Smiths are absolutely real faces instead of the frills and the gloss and the pantomime popular music has become immersed in, as a matter of course.”
-MORRISSEY 1984
“There’s a tremendous amount of repression. It was why I introduced the flowers on stage - to reduce people’s hostility.”
-MORRISSEY 1983
“I don’t think EMI have anything to worry about - we’re not planning anything drastic or supernatural.”
-MORRISSEY
Gif Source: nonsensenonstar
“One of The Smiths’ skills has been to take subjects which people might lazily presume are dark and morbid, and make them interesting, or turn them into the subjects of interesting songs.”
-MORRISSEY 1987
“Times are different and my life has moved on since The Smiths in very specific ways, and ‘Viva Hate’ is in no way the follow-up to ‘Strangeways’. So in a sense I do feel that it is the first record.”
-MORRISSEY 1988
“I write strongly and I write very openly from the heart, which is something people aren’t really used to.”
-MORRISSEY 1983
Gif Source: nonsensenonstar
“What is important is that we have a conviction that is quite rare. We write songs that have good lyrics and everything we do and say, we mean.”
-MORRISSEY 1983
“The past is so very important. I don’t like it when people say, let’s leave the past and go ahead, because a lot of the future isn’t that attractive.”
-MORRISSEY 1985
