The Best Robert Smith quotes

Your life will take place whether you have a plan or not, so have a plan. Choose one. — Robert D. Smith

His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life. — Brian Robert Smith

I’m not a morose person; it’s just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. — Robert Smith

I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. — Robert Smith

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know. — Patti Smith

My whole life I’ve played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. — Robert Smith

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. — Patti Smith

Living, it’s awful for me. — Robert Smith

How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone? — Patti Smith

I knew he didn’t love me, but I adored him anyway. — Patti Smith

Love locally, trade globally. — Russ Roberts

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

Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line. — Patti Smith

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go. — Patti Smith

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

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. — Robert Smith

I don’t fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future. — Patti Smith

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

I don’t dislike my peers because they’re still around and remind me of what I’m doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they’ve done over the years. — Robert Smith

I don’t think,’ he insisted. ‘I feel. — Patti Smith

If you feel alienated from people around you, it’s because no one tries to understand you. — Robert Smith

I lose myself in music because I can’t be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. — Robert Smith

A wind picked up and I could feel the sea within it. — Patti Smith

I just don’t feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I’m getting. It’s purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me. — Robert Smith

I still frequent my parents’ house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. — Robert Smith

Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine. — Patti Smith

I hated the soup and felt little for the can. — Patti Smith

I am very self–conscious a lot of the time. — Robert Smith

Each time I play a song it seems more real. — Robert Smith

In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand. — Patti Smith

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn’t live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. — Patti Smith

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it. — Reference To Andy Warhol

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

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

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn’t flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it. — Robert Smith

At the present time you have boxers going around the world trying to qualify for the olympics. are you going to say,’ thanks very much but goodbye, we are going to have somebody else’. — Robert Smith

For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeply by his blooming. — Patti Smith

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. — Patti Smith

The best preparation for living well is to be prepared to die at any time. — Robert D. Smith

When you’re on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It’s pretty intense. — Robert Smith

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I’ve never met a journalist I’d rather look like. — Robert Smith

Both me and my wife’s extended family all live within a 50–mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it’s a homing instinct. — Robert Smith

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. — Patti Smith

He wasn’t certain whether he was a good or bad person. Whether he was altruistic. Whether he was demonic. But he was certain of one thing. He was an artist. And for that he would never apologize. — Patti Smith

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god. — Patti Smith

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. — Patti Smith

But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. — Patti Smith

I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore. — Robert Smith

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. — Robert Smith

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world. — Patti Smith

Without faith that there’s a world beyond the one we live in, I don’t see how it’s possible to get rid of angst. — Robert Smith

Reading is something I’ve really missed, not being able to enter people’s worlds. — Robert Smith

It seemed as if the whole of the world was slowly being stripped of innocence. Or maybe I was seeing a little too clearly. — Patti Smith

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don’t abandon the book–there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. — Patti Smith

W]ithout a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality. — Patti Smith

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don’t. I think it’s hilarious, actually, what things I’ve heard about him, what he’s really like, and his public persona is so different. He’s such an actor. — Robert Smith

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. — Patti Smith

When we awoke he greeted me with his crooked smile, and I knew he was my knight. — Patti Smith

I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart. — Patti Smith

We promised that we’d never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept. — Patti Smith