Robert Smith Quotes

• Each time I play a song it seems more real.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Real, Play, Song

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Music, Away, Knowing

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Crap, Rock

• I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can’t be grown up unless you’re moaning about your job.

  Robert Smith

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Fun, Kind

• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Find, Trying

• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Old, Found

• I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Write, Point

• I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can’t be grown up unless you’re moaning about your job.

  Robert Smith

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Fun, Kind

• 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.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Someone, Ever, Put

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

  Robert Smith

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Romantic

• 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.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in past, Someone

• 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.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Worry, Second

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Wanted, Word

• 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

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Write, Face

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Looking, Sky

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Look, Less

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

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in Ever, Group

• 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.

  Robert Smith

  Topics in God

  Tags in Pain

• 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.

  Robert Smith

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  Tags in End, Come

• 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

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  Tags in Eyes, Sometimes

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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