Quotes by Robert Smith - Page 3

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
Robert Smith / Musician
Jobs
Travel
Concerts
Enjoy
Habit
People
Play
Said
Weird Things
World
Weird
Job
Travel World I Am
Having
Occasionally
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When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
Robert Smith / Musician
Grew
House
Listening
Punk
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Played
Came
Cause
Floyd
Generation
Saw
Pink
Pink Floyd
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Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.
Robert Smith / Musician
Faces
Fall
Hate
Irony
Recourse
Song
Ah
Anyway
Meant
Deliver
Dishonest
Well
Smiles
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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.
Robert Smith / Musician
Band
Bunch
Cures
Felt
Listening
Paradigm
Understand
Coming
Cure
Period
Grown
Massively
Shift
Supposed
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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
Robert Smith / Musician
Listening
Nice
People
Turns
Weird
Center
Concert
Group
Meeting
Some People
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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 / Musician
Glam
Makeup
Punk
School
Theatrical
Thinking
Better Always Look
Drawn
Wearing
Partly
Wore
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Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.
Robert Smith / Musician
Jobs
Ability
Disappointed
Frustrated
My Own
Normal
Normal Life
Shopping
Strange
Thinking
Who I Am
Feel
Job
Life Myself I Am
Fairly
Everyone
Apart
Does
Constrained
Often
Fact
Got
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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 / Musician
Fabulous
Fans
Guitar
Guitar Playing
My Own
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Fan
Concert
Period
Saw
Thin
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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 / Musician
Band
First Time
Play
Thinking
Together
Tragic
Life Time Together
Develop
Older
Spend
Inevitably
Outside
Socialize
Tend
Unit
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Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.
Robert Smith / Musician
Footballer
Guitarist
Hendrix
Made
Might
Nine
Singers
Thinking
Wanted
Adult
Life Good Your
Life Good Me
Person
Come
Had
Across
Free
Before
First
Dominated
Entirely
Singer
Seemed
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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.
Robert Smith / Musician
Black
Desperate
Horrible
Mess
Months
Two
Wander
Life Time Myself
Within
Since
Had
Actually
Again
Pretty
Full
Down
Times
Few
Gotten
Mental
My Life
Reasons
Various Reasons
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