Andy Rourke Quotes

#1. Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just a very respected and unusual musician.

Johnny Marr

#2. 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.

Andy Rourke

#3. I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

Andy Rourke

#4. I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.

Robbie Robertson

#5. If only he really knew how messy my head was sometimes. That attack last night? Just the tip of a Titanic-sized fuckedup iceberg.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

Andy Rourke

#7. Leadership is character in action.

James Hunter

#8. An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

Marty Rubin

#9. Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

Jacqueline Susann

#10. In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

#11. 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.

Andy Rourke

#12. When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.

Aussiescribbler

#13. 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.

Andy Rourke

#14. So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

Annie Dillard

#15. When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

Andy Rourke

#16. 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.

Andy Rourke

#17. The human mind gives color to the Earth's mind; the Earth's mind gives color to the human mind.

Ilchi Lee

#18. A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

Brendan T. Kelly

#19. Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

Ernest West Basden

#20. 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.

Andy Rourke

#21. You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

Andy Rourke

#22. You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!

Frank M. Wanderer

#23. The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

Sheila Walsh

#24. 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.

Andy Rourke

#25. Always be intentional and purposeful in life

Sunday Adelaja