“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

Who is Morrissey? Why he’s the greatest singer/songwriter of all time. I thought everybody knew that.

Morrissey and the band in Honolulu (19, May 2012)

“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

The Smiths and……

“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