Johnny Marr Quotes

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• Some cities are really boring and straight.

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  Cities, Boring

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

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  Growing Up, People, Tests

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

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  People, Radio, Aim

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• I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

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  People, Fascinating, Seems

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• People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.

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  Song, Kings, Hair

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• When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.

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  Spiritual, Important, Fans

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• I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.

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  Animal, Thinking, Rocks

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• You've got to understand that. We all look out for Morrissey. It's a very brotherly feeling. When we first rehearsed, I'd have done anything for him. And as a person Morrissey is really capable of a truly loving relationship. Every day he's so open, so romantic and sensitive to other people's emotions.

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  People, Feelings, Looks

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• I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

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  Growing Up, Real, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

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  Drinking, Focus, Healthy

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• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

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  Guitar, Age, Four

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• In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.

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  Technology, Destiny, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

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  People, Trying, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.

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  Mean, Cities, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

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  Genre, Pops, Difficult

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've run all the bands I've been in. A great front man needs that other person. It's not enough to have a guy with a cute face standing behind a microphone. I see it like the classic romantic relationships with men and women, where the woman lets the man think he's running it. It's a classic matriarchal trait, and that's always been part of my personality.

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  Cute, Running, Men

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• I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

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  Thinking, Kind, Granted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

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  Jobs, Father, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

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  Musical, Influence, Musical Influence

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• Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

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  Rap, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.

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  People, Kind, Granted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

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  Guitar, Care, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do something theatrical. I just don't like wasting opportunity - if you're going to do a photo session, if you're going to walk on stage, why not make it interesting?

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  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

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  Dancing, Guy, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

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  Song, Writing, People

  "Johnny Marr has no negative thoughts about The Smiths, seriously". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2012.

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