Andy Partridge Quotes

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• My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
• You may leave school, but it never leaves you.
• It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my…
• Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I…
• I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a…
• It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
• Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
• I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
• By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I…
• I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.
• I felt pressured by continuous touring.
• I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match…
• If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the…
• It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a…
• The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything…
• We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us…
• Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it…
• You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard…
• I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.
• We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored…

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