Andrew Eldritch famous quotes

03-28-2025

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Vocabulary #Games #Doubt
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#England #Entertainers
People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#People #Looks #Taught
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Writing #Rocks
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#House #Bars #Records
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Jobs #Airports #Long
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Strange #British #Enjoy
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Hard Times #People #Band
I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Home #Years #Feels
Hard to find and even harder to listen to
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Harder
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#England #Social #Institutions
Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Different #Humour
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Nice #Thinking #People
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#People #Life Is Hard #Hard Life
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Different #Way #Music Is
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Art #Symbolism #Gestures
I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Fun #People #Want
I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#Thinking #Class #Musical

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