The 42+ Andy Partridge Quotes

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.

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

I Felt Pressured By Continuous Touring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's Sort Of What Jazz Would Be If It Stopped Being Snobby And What Rock Would Be If It Stopped Being Stupid.

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.