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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• 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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• 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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• It's a perfect day for letting go.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Crazy, Perfect Days

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• See the ridiculous in everything.

  Robert Smith

  Crazy, Mad, Ridiculous

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

  Robert Smith

  Slides, Easy, Existence

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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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• 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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• True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

  Robert Smith

  Eye, Past, Looks

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• Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

  Robert Smith

  Demise, Pushing It, Accepted

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

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Remember, Cry

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

  Robert Smith

  Song, Play, Knows

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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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• 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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