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I’m just going to carry on like the old blues singers and die on stage in Chicago, probably. I don’t know. As the world knows, music has changed dramatically, and record labels have changed dramatically, their needs and requirements have changed dramatically. So somebody of an advanced age, shall we say, finds it very very difficult to convince, etc. But not convince an audience, but just convince the existing shops and so forth that you’re sellable and stockable. So it’s all very difficult. It doesn’t become easier. But nonetheless I’m still here.
Morrissey
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Morrissey on... his musical heroes»
Moz talks about the music scene of 1970s New York, and how it influenced him and his work.
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The Telegraph, 2011
- Michael Deacon: If you're so lonely, why not just start a relationship?
- Morrissey: Well, you must be true to your heart. Yes, you might pair off for companionship, but maybe the other person doesn’t want to, or sees it slightly differently. There’s always somebody who loves more than the other.
- Michael Deacon: But if, as you insist, you've been single your whole life, how do you know what relationships are like?
- Morrissey: You don’t need to have been down a pit to know that it’s dirty.
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I’m like a lamb that has been sprayed with that dreadful blue ink. I’ve been indelibly stamped, indelibly marked, and I will always be considered unsafe and unsavoury.
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Morrissey - “Action Is My Middle Name”
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The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.
Morrissey (via It # π)
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Les Inrockuptibles, 1995
- LI: Do you have friends whom you reproach for not giving enough away ?
- Morrissey: Of course, but they're incapable of giving more. Maybe because I'm very sensitive and that they're afraid to hurt me. Maybe because I'm not devoid of a certain poetic sense and that the majority of people aren't poets. Too often, they content themselves with being there, sat in the same room as me. They don't make the effort to shine, to give. They stay there, that's all.
