Robert Smith (musician): Quotes about thinking

Robert Smith (musician) is English singer, songwriter and musician. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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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.”

Robert Smith (musician)

Spin magazine 1989

“What we do attracts to a certain type of people. I don't think age has anything to do with it: either you get into it or you don't. You can be 16 or 60 and you will like us or not depending on your sensibilities.”

Robert Smith (musician)

X-Press Magazine, Australia, September 2000

“I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.”

Robert Smith (musician)

Trouser Press 1980

“We never became a mainstream band. It's kind of like we've bridged two worlds, or fallen between two stools, between alternative and mainstream. To a lot of mainstream programmers, The Cure is still a bit too weird. To an alternative programmer, sometimes we're a bit too mainstream. Sometimes we've benefited from that and sometimes we've kind of suffered. I actually enjoy that kind of position because I think it reflects what the band does”

Robert Smith (musician)

CMJ, December 1999

“I wake up and look at myself and think, 'yuck!”

Robert Smith (musician)

MTV

“Most of the time I'm a professional idiot. I really don't care about what other people think, which can be a bad thing.”

Robert Smith (musician)

The Hit magazine 1985

“The fun thing is something people always miss out on with us. It's been brilliant making this album, but even as far back as Faith or Pornography we were still having a good crack. People would see me and Simon laughing and drinking ourselves unconscious together and they couldn't understand how we could be like that and still be in this angst-ridden band. But it's easy to be like that -- it's what being little, being a child, is all about. When you're grown up, you can't do it cos' you think about it too much. (Melody Maker, March 7, 1992)”

Robert Smith (musician)

“It's really weird but my parents used to tell me I could do anything I wanted to. I used to say, 'Well, what if I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon?" and my dad used to say, 'If you really want to you can'. I used to think he was talking absolute rubbish, particularly when I was 21 and he was still saying that. But in a way it really stuck with me cos my dad ended up doing exactly what he wanted to do. To an outside point of view he's totally conformed, he's had a family and four kids but he's only ever done things that made him genuinely happy. "He jacked in his job cos it made him unhappy and he didn't want to compromise his entire life just for the sake of carrying it through. It's very admirable, that quality, and I think it's very rare in people. Most people feel so conditioned, so oppressed by everything that goes on around them that they just give in. You have to refuse to give in.”

Robert Smith (musician)

Melody Maker, March 7th 1992

“Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. (Melody Maker magazine 1992)”

Robert Smith (musician)

“I think we're in the Top 10 most bootlegged bands in history according to a web-poll. Pretty much every show we ever do is bootlegged, but it's very rare that one is of good enough quality to be listened to by anything other than the most fanatical people though I suppose only fanatical people buy bootlegs.”

Robert Smith (musician)

X-Press magazine 2000