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Robert Smith is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band The Cure. His distinctive voice, unique style, and emotionally charged lyrics have made a lasting impact on alternative and gothic rock music. He continues to be an influential figure in the music industry and a symbol of artistic individuality. Here are 102 of his quotes:

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)

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)

The Cure, is the kind of band that wanders in and out of the mainstream's gaze. (The Boston Globe newspaper 1997)

Robert Smith (musician)

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 (musician)

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Robert Smith (musician)

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

Robert Smith (musician)

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 (musician)

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 (musician)

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Robert Smith (musician)

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Smith (musician)

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

Robert Smith (musician)

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

Robert Smith (musician)

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Robert Smith (musician)

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Robert Smith (musician)

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Robert Smith (musician)

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

Robert Smith (musician)

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

Robert Smith (musician)

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 (musician)

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith (musician)

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 (musician)

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 (musician)

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

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