Andrew Eldritch

Singer

1959-05-15

Andrew Eldritch is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the frontman of the gothic rock band The Sisters of Mercy. His birth name is Andrew William Harvey Taylor. He has remained the central and enduring creative figure of the band since its formation in 1980.

Quotes by Andrew Eldritch

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.
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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.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
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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.
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