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Andrew Eldritch

Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, 15 May 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is the frontman and only remaining original member of the Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene, transformed into a gothic rock band and, in later years, flirted with hard rock.

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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.

Nice, Thinking, People, Hear, Everything, Beginning

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.

Evening, Fun, Naive, People, Want

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.

Band, British, Given, Hard Times, People, Shirt

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

Different, Way, Music Is, Make, Aware

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Rock, Rocks, Rollers, Write, Writers, Writing

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.

Airports, Hour, Imply, Interviews, Jobs, Long

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

England, Entertainer, Entertainers, Hard

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

Apparently, Different, Humour, Sense, Totally

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Intelligence, Look, Looks, People, Rockmusic, Taught

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.

England, Institutions, Like, Social

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Art, Gesture, Gestures, Increasingly, Symbolism

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Feels, Home, Ten, Years

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.

Enjoy, Hard, Hard Life, Life Is Hard, People, Spiteful

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Anymore, Bars, Friends, House, Records, Trawl

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.

Away, Class, Music, Musical, Think, Thinking

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.

Becoming, Doubt, Everybody, Games, Nobody, Vocabulary

Hard to find and even harder to listen to

Harder, Hard, Listen

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Advocating, British, Rule, Shows, Strange