Robert Smith Quotes - Page 4

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• When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Play, Together

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• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

  Robert Smith

  Trying, Arms, Limits

  Guitar Player magazine, 1992.

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• My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Machines, Becoming

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

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• Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

  Robert Smith

  Baseball, Umpires, Two

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• There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

  Robert Smith

  Down And, Becoming, Stage

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• I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, People, Looks

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

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• I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Trouser Press, 1980.

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• I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

  Robert Smith

  Numbers, People, Want

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• It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

  Robert Smith

  Clever, Ideas, Political

  "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'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway

  Robert Smith

  Worry, Division, Firsts

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• If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

  Robert Smith

  Wings, Waiting, Interviews

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• Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Play, World

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• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Stuff, Entertainment

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• I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, House, Different

  "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 entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

  Robert Smith

  Marine, Marine Corps, Relation

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• I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

  Robert Smith

  Technology, Ideas, People

  "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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