Quotes by Andy Rourke - Page 1

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.
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Meat
Burger
Slip
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I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.
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Bono
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I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.
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Classical Guitar
Apparently
Classical
Embraced
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My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
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Bass
Selling
Timber
Amp
First Job
Joined
Pop
Save
Wagon
Yard
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It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.
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Pleasure
Love Work People
Artists
Badly
Drawn
Highlight
Pretenders
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Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
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Touring
Gig
Vicar
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With Freebass, there were no rules, really. It was all rather chaotic. Obviously, Hooky was playing the high end stuff, which he always does; Mani was doing the bottom end, and I thought I'd go midway and meet everyone in the middle.
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Bottom
Chaotic
Midway
No Rules
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You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.
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Adaptable
Express Yourself
Fingers
Thumbs
Pony
Slow
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I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.
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New York
Royal
Spain
Thirty
Albert
Oh
Dead
Hall
Queen
Literally
Oh My God
Sign
York
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It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?
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Beaten
Etc
Geography
Latin
Physical Education
Basis
Daily Basis
Early Age
Play Music
The Only Thing
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When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'
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Barbarism
Fascinated
Funk
Investigating
Stanley
Various
Begins
Clarke
Mainly
Struck
Styles
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I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.
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Jealous
Optimistic
Hey
Successful People
Well Done
Pat
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