Robert Smith Quotes

• You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

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

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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.

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

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

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• There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.

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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.

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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.

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• Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I’m me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

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• No, come to think of it, I don’t think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

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• Like I can’t cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can’t let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

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• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I’d disband the group immediately.

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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.

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• I’m not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn’t bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

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• I’d rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

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• I wouldn’t want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

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

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• 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.

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• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else’s entertainment, not mine.

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• I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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Robert Smith (26)

Birth:	21st April, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Lyricist

About

Robert James Smith is a British musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its formation in 1976. NY Rock describes him as "pop culture's unkempt poster child of doom and gloom", and asserts that some of his songs are a "somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars".

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