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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 it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 271 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 tends to be getting straighter and straighter because...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 248 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Chaos | Clicks: 378 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We'd play in places like The Roxy and The Red Cow and there'd be all these big show fights with people acting show aggression to us. Being from a little country town, it was really frightening.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 255 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 for anything other than the music.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 293 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We didn't come from London, we came from Swindon, which is 18 miles out in the West and it was one of those joke towns.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Country | Clicks: 285 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 262 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The early gigs were pretty panicky and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 263 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Terry went straight to Australia where he had a girlfriend and she got pregnant and had a baby. So he became a dad and they got married.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Marriage | Clicks: 301 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 253 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Straight back from America I went to a psychiatrist, hypnotist and all this other kind of stuff to try and get me sorted out.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Country | Clicks: 278 | Rank: 0 | Fav

So it was a bit tricky, 'cause most of the people in London belonged to this London clique and we didn't. So we didn't go to parties or hang out.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: People | Clicks: 268 | Rank: 0 | Fav

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: People | Clicks: 284 | Rank: 0 | Fav

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Parents | Clicks: 328 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Music | Clicks: 280 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 281 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 278 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I was a very snotty youth, I just didn't want to take what other people had done.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 292 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Parents | Clicks: 279 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the...

Author: Andy Partridge (1953) | Theme: Hero | Clicks: 306 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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