Robert Smith Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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 still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

  Robert Smith

  House, Parent, Bedroom

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• I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

  Robert Smith

  Heart, Thinking, Adrift

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• For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

  Robert Smith

  Listening, Band, Cures

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• Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

  Robert Smith

  Queens, Hated, Honestly

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• I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Way

  L'Express newspaper, 2000.

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• Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

  Robert Smith

  Animal, Worry, Generations

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

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• Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

  Robert Smith

  Song, Writing, Felt

  The Hit magazine, 1985.

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• I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

  Robert Smith

  Self, Self Conscious, Conscious

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• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Groups, Ten

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• Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Hate, Fall

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• Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Eye, Faces

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• Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

  Robert Smith

  Makeup, Years, People

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• I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Different, Actors

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

  Robert Smith

  World, Strange, Left Behind

  "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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Spin magazine, 1987.

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• I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Play, People

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

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• The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

  Robert Smith

  Guitar, Fans, Rolling

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• I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

  Robert Smith

  Writing, Paper, Laptops

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• Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

  Robert Smith

  Home, Makeup, Havens

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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