Where do you go for your holidays?
I don’t. No, I just hang around the East End in a long black cape.

Morrissey, Q Magazine (1995)
#morrissey  #being difficult difficult lemon difficult  
1 month ago on April 23, 2012 at 05:19pm
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I honestly begin every single day only with the intention of avoiding people.

Morrissey, MOJO ‘04 (via infinitemeows)

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#morrissey  #delicate flower [sic]  
5 months ago on December 30, 2011 at 12:05am
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I cannot be loved. I’m like a dog from the rescue home. There’s no point.

Morrissey, responding to a fan at Carnegie Hall who shouted “I love you” in 2009. (via)

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#life is simply taking and not giving  #morrissey  #cult of moz  
6 months ago on December 03, 2011 at 01:08pm
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Morrissey said to us one night, in a dressing room - he’d come to see us in LA - and before going onstage he said, “So, what can we expect tonight?” And I was like, “well, I dunno,” and he said, “do you have any new moves?” - no, I’ve just got the music, mate - and he kind of gave us a withering look. And this is the best thing that’s ever been said to me by anybody. Somebody came in and said, “Five minutes to stage time!” and we said to Morrissey, “Come back and see us for a drink afterwards, we’re having an aftershow party!” and he said, “Oh, don’t worry about that, I’m only staying for the first three songs.

Noel Gallagher (via sarawisdom)
#benevolent moz  #oasis  #morrissey  
7 months ago on October 12, 2011 at 09:44pm
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Morrissey would sit unobtrusively in the control room reading a book. While he was doing this he was also absorbing the music, trying out vocals in his head. When he came to do his vocals it was all extremely surprising. Where we had heard a middle-eight, he would sing a chorus and vice versa. You never knew how he was going to phrase it. On Late Night, Maudlin Street he immediately put down what was meant to be a rough guide vocal. This is a long song with lots of words and none of us had heard him sing any of it before. But this take was just perfect. There was complete, stunned silence after he’d finished.

Vini Reilly, Mojo 2002
#song-writing  #morrissey  #vini reilly  
8 months ago on September 14, 2011 at 07:41pm
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[After Viva Hate], Morrissey would occasionally visit me in Manchester. I didn’t drink wine. So, instead, he would bring presents of eco-friendly toilet cleaner. I remember going for a drive in this immaculate 1960s saloon car he’d got from somewhere. He’d just passed his driving test and he was terrified in case he ran over those small birds that were flitting across the road.

Vini Reilly, Mojo 2002 (via morrissey-scans here)
#delicate flower [sic]  #morrissey  #vini reilly  #benevolent moz  
8 months ago on September 14, 2011 at 07:31pm
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I started working much more closely with Morrissey on his own and then I started working with Johnny on his own. And it was quite difficult sometimes because although Johnny wasn’t that bothered I’d find for a period that I’d go from one to the other. I was doing a Morrissey tour book when Kill Uncle was out and I’d fly from Frankfurt and I’d go and do some pictures of Electronic and Johnny was go oh how’s Moz. I’d have to think what does he want me to say and then I’d go from that back to Morrissey and for about two days Morrissey wouldn’t say anything and then he’d say, and how’s Bernard Allbran, I think he called him, and he would ask about Johnny in the end. He’d ask about Bernard first which I assumed was code for how’s Johnny. I got to a point where I said to Johnny, look do you want to meet Moz because Moz would like to. I think in the end I was semi instrumental in them getting back together to actually chat to each other. They lived really close to each other outside Manchester as well so it was a bit of an awkward position all round.

Kevin Cummins (via)
#lol  #morrissey  #johnny marr  #the smiths  #terrible puns  #er wordplay? is that a reference to blur?  #bernard sumner  
10 months ago on August 02, 2011 at 06:04am
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[Morrissey] pauses and looks at the ceiling. ‘You know, this conversation has devolved dramatically.’

Melody Maker, 1997
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10 months ago on July 30, 2011 at 04:00pm
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In last month’s Q, you described Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce rather cruelly as Rick and Bruce. How could you say that about your old muckers?
The original Rick and Bruce I actually loved! The Jam are one of my favorite groups of all time. But why can’t I say that? I can say what I like

Morrissey (Select, 1994)

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#morrissey  #the smiths  #the other two get ten percent ok  #the original rick and bruce  
10 months ago on July 30, 2011 at 02:09pm
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Guy Pratt [admits] he permanently marked his card at Stanbridge when he mistakenly hammered on [Morrissey’s] door early one morning, thinking it was Marr’s bedroom, having stayed up all night in a coked-up stupor. Morrissey was on the next train to London within the hour.

Mozipedia
#guy pratt  #delicate flower [sic]  #morrissey  
10 months ago on July 27, 2011 at 04:25pm
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