Andy Partridge Quotes - Page 2

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

  Andy Partridge

  Father, Guitar, Play

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• I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

  Andy Partridge

  Sound, Band, Interest

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

  Andy Partridge

  Country, Awards, Guitar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

  Andy Partridge

  Journey, Want, Settlement

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• I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

  Andy Partridge

  Thinking, Creative, Vomiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

  Andy Partridge

  Book, Jealous, Kissing

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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 grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

  Andy Partridge

  Hate, Frustration, Joy

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• 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 lot of avant garde things.

  Andy Partridge

  Hands, Avant Garde, Stones

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• 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 collapsed in pure fright.

  Andy Partridge

  Fear, France, Eating

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• Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

  Andy Partridge

  Singing, Doorways, Ships

  Song: Me And The Wind

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• We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

  Andy Partridge

  Mother, Real, Brave

  Song: Human Alchemy

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• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

  Andy Partridge

  Rain, Blood, Land

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• 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 lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

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  Football, Hero, Scotland

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• 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 mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

  Andy Partridge

  Mean, Names, Important

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• 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.

  Andy Partridge

  Running, Pain, Play

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• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  Andy Partridge

  Sleep, Knowing, Lenses

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• I felt pressured by continuous touring.

  Andy Partridge

  Touring, Felt, Pressured

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