Robert Smith Quotes

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• I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

  Robert Smith

  Because I Can, Explaining, Feels

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• If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

  Robert Smith

  People, Trying, Feels

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• Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

  Robert Smith

  Growing Up, Thinking, Accepting

  Melody Maker magazine, 1992.

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• See the ridiculous in everything.

  Robert Smith

  Crazy, Mad, Ridiculous

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• It's a perfect day for letting go.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Crazy, Perfect Days

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• In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

  Robert Smith

  People, Needs, Irritated

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• I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

  Robert Smith

  Sky, Listening, Houston

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• It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

  Robert Smith

  Slides, Easy, Existence

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• It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Remember, Cry

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• B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

  Robert Smith

  Women, Views, Two

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• I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

  Robert Smith

  Desire, Want, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Guitar, Drunk

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• The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

  Robert Smith

  Care, I Care

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• I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

  Robert Smith

  Rocks, Care, Want

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• You don't really know a song until you play it live.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Play, Knows

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• I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

  Robert Smith

  Smile, Writing, Faces

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• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

  Robert Smith

  Eight, Ballet, Flight

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• Living, it's awful for me.

  Robert Smith

  Awful

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

  Robert Smith

  Hard Times, Giving, Looks

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• In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

  Robert Smith

  Wish, Impossible, Holes

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• I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

  Robert Smith

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  "The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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• I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

  Robert Smith

  School, Makeup, Thinking

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• It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, People, Band

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

  Robert Smith

  Moving, Makeup, Special

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• I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

  Robert Smith

  Children, Mindset, Born

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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