Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Concert

Guitar

Thought

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

" 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. "

" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

Robert Smith

Awful

Living

" I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. "

" I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "

" I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction. "

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

" The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.' "

" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "

" I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important. "

" There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. "

" 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

You

Ballet

" Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst. "

" 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. "

" 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

Think

Why

" I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. "

" You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. "

" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "

Robert Smith

People

Spirit

" 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. "

" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "

Robert Smith

Knowing

" I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "

" 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. "

" If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. "

Robert Smith

Fool

Music

" I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "