22 Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey


The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on business

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on death

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on death

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on family

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on family

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on family

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 Patrick Morrissey on family

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on famous

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on finance

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on imagination

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on morning

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 Patrick Morrissey on music

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

Pop music has progressed.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on music

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on sad

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Steven Patrick Morrissey on society