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QUOTES Here are some interesting quotes from Robert Smith: "I don't have anything to say, so let's get on with it..." [Heard in concert, 11/30/96] Robert Smith "The Cure, is the kind of band that wanders in and out of the mainstream's gaze." Robert Smith The Boston Globe 1997 "You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us." "I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston." Robert Smith Unknown "...I mean there's a Holy Grail for Cure fans which has always been the Disintegration tour of 1989 and I was quite shocked to find that as we were going along this year the internet reviews were getting more and more glowing. They've reached the giddy heights of 'as-good-as-or-if-not-better-than-the-Disintegration-tour'. There's no higher accolade from Cure fans than that. It's been great." [Referring to the Dream Tour 2000] Robert Smith X-Press Magazine 9/00 "You don't really know a song until you play it live." Robert Smith Unknown "That we truly were an alternative group." [Referring to what should be on his epitaph] Robert Smith Recent Interview "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 X-Press Magazine 9/00 "It has nothing to do with me if there's a lot of bootlegs of the Cure; I've never objected to them, no-one's ever had their tape recorder confiscated at a Cure show, it doesn't bother me in the slightest." Robert Smith Unknown [Referring to the moment the band unveiled the finished Disintegration to their record company]
"The atmosphere at the end was incredible, it was so bad. They all thought it was commercial suicide. This
was one of my blackest moments. I thought it was my masterpiece, and they thought it was shit. They'd turned up expecting
Kiss Me Part 2, and they got Pornography Part 2." [Obviously, the record company was wrong. Disintegration was on the music charts for 55 weeks] "Seeing someone f**k a monkey doesn't particulary shock me. I get much more shocked by someone attacking someone else for doing it." [Referring to his views on pornography] Robert Smith Unknown "...even if they [the fans] think some of the early singles are lightweight or they want you to go back to something you did three albums ago, they're still prepared to stick with the group because they know that I'm writing songs and recording them not to be famous, but because I want to." Robert Smith Addicted To Noise '97 "It's a bit of a crass generalization, but people whose favorite Cure albums are Pornography and Disintegration are generally more alert and have thought about things." Robert Smith Unknown "This is one of three classic Cure albums [Bloodflowers]. I accept now that The Cure have a sound, and this album is the sound of The Cure. The difference is, now I like the idea, I like the fact that you know it's The Cure within 30 seconds of it starting. It's a testament to what we've achieved." Robert Smith Uncut 2/1/00 "We wouldn't have been able to handle the fame if it would've hit us all of the sudden. When I was young I always dreamed of having a group that was adored by few and ignored by the rest of the world, like Nick Drake. Fortunately, when we became famous, I had no time to reflect upon anything anymore." Robert Smith De Standaard 11/16/01 "It's been the most enjoyable Cure tour I've ever done.
I think that's probably because we've been playing songs that I really like, the side of The Cure
that I really prefer live, which is the darker side." [Referring to the Dream Tour set lists] "There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!" Robert Smith Unknown "We started off the tour [swing tour] in Britain and the difference is quite stunning between
the audience there and over here [U.S.]. I mean, they're so loud over here, I've forgotten
how...keen everyone is to having a good time in America." "...but what we do I think attracts a certain type of person. I don't think age has much to do with it, you either get into it or you don't. You could be 16 or 60 and you're either gonna like us or not depending on your sensibilities.." Robert Smith X-Press Magazine 9/00 [After listening to old tapes for The Greatest Hits Album] "I realized we have been playing 'Let's Go To Bed' wrong since it has been released. The bassline has been played wrong for almost 20 years. I still haven't got round to telling them." [the band] Robert Smith JAM! Showbiz 11/01 "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." "...soon I started to buy records on my pocket money; the first one was Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. And the first concert I attended was Hendrix on the Isle of Wright; I was 10." Robert Smith Les Inrockuptibles 10/28/97 "Jimi Hendrix changed my life. Each generation influences the following one and as a consequence brings it back to the past..." [Referring to the influence The Cure purportedly has had on young English bands] Robert Smith L'Express 2/00 "I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another Robert Smith wearing make-up, charicatural and aggressive. I didn't invent this character: he escaped from me. My anger is still the same, but I make it positive." Robert Smith L'Express 2/00 "Mary has been the great influence in my life, the rock that stays strong when I lose my head. She noticed, for example that I become aggressive and unfriendly when I cut my hair. So I make it long. Mary is very maternal with me. And very, very tolerant. " Robert Smith Unknown "[Referring to Robert's passion for music] It's not always easy to cope with it. I realize I'm still with Mary just because she
has always been so incredibly tolerant with this fire that moves me. I only live for my music, the
rest is of no importance." "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 Melody Maker 3/7/92 "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 Unknown "...there have been very few virtuosos in the history of the group, but there have been a lot of really nice people.
The Cure backstage is a notoriously fun-filled zone." "If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately." Robert Smith Unknown "I'm in my 40s now, and I found I was having to go to people who are in their 30s to ask their permission to do things, and that cannot be right." [on one of the reasons why the band has left its record label] Robert Smith Unknown "We [the Cure] are supposed to be very mysterious, reading French Romantic poetry by candlelight." Robert Smith The Age - Melbourne Online 11/2/97 "I've had enough of being perceived as a doomy Goth casualty." Robert Smith Unknown "The Press try to categorize me a 'gloom-and-doom' singer. But, take a look at Morrissey! That man's a professional moaner!" Robert Smith Unknown "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 Rolling Stone 1997 "I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore." Robert Smith L'Express 2/00 "I was 21, but I felt really old. I actually felt older than I do now. I had absolutely no hope for the future. I felt life was pointless. I had no faith in anything. I just didn’t see there was much point in continuing with life. In the next two years, I genuinely felt that I wasn’t going to be alive for much longer. I tried particularly hard to make sure I wasn’t." Robert Smith Uncut 2/1/00 [Because Ian Curtis had killed himself] "...it suddenly dawned on me that to make this album [Faith] convincing I would have to kill myself. If I wanted people to accept what we were doing, I was going to have to take the ultimate step." Robert Smith Uncut 2/1/00 [Referring to WMS lower than expected record sales and concert attendance] "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." [A soccer reference] Robert Smith Alternative Press "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 Unknown "I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap." "I go off-roading occasionally, drunkenly at night across fields." Robert Smith Unknown "I never wanted to be the personality of the group. When I was with the Banshees, I was
only a guitarist, and it's great being just that. What happens with this
group is that the others don't talk, only when they're drunk. Well, Roger speaks all the
time, but what happens is he just speaks stupidities. I hope nobody translates this interview to
English. Roger, I'm sorry, I didn't want to say that." [laughs] "There is a reason for me always shoe-gazing. I simply can't look into the eyes of several thousand people." Robert Smith Article by Jane Stevenson, Toronto Sun "If I didn't wear make-up I couldn't get on stage. I'd be much too self conscious. " Robert Smith Unknown "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 Unknown "There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off." Robert Smith Unknown "I wake up and look at myself and think, 'yuck!" Robert Smith MTV "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 Unknown "I'm big in the uncle department...I like having kids for weekends...I just like taking them out and teaching them bad tricks...I hate the idea of being a dad. I'm too undisciplined and too selfish to be a father." Robert Smith From Jam TV "A couple of years ago, we went to Eurodisney. That too was bearable, although it was a bit weird when Mickey Mouse came to ask for an autograph." Robert Smith Unknown "When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs." Robert Smith Unknown "I actually listen to a lot of instrumental music at home because I find myself criticizing lyrics. I hear something interesting and the intro sounds really good and then here come the lyrics and I think, 'Oh f * * k!' Robert Smith Unknown "I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier." Robert Smith The Hit 9/21/85 "Each time I play a song it seems more real." Robert Smith Unknown "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 Unknown "I hate Madonna! She looks like she stinks!" Robert Smith Unknown "What I really had against Lol, is that he had taken away
more than a year of my time...our argument puts a shadow over my life."[Speaking about the former band member, Laurence Tolhurst court case against him that Robert eventually won] [Robert Smith referring to some of his favorite songs] According to an
interview in Guitar Player Magazine 9/92 Robert's favorite songs are: From a magazine interview Robert lists his favorite 10 albums as of 1/00, but
he emphasized that his favorites constantly change. From another interview he was asked to name the five best albums of all time.
"Impossible! But at this moment the first 5 that come into my head are: |
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