And, I believe since we've come off the road we've done our best stuff. Whether that's coincidental or not, I'm not sure.Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion, faith
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.Quote by Andy Partridge about fear
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.Quote by Andy Partridge about name, things, good, good luck
I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.Quote by Andy Partridge about thinking, people
I actually stole my first electric guitar, the start of my rock'n'roll lifestyle.Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion, rocks
I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion
I had a friend who was older than me, and he used to go to New York and buy these strange records and try to force them on me.Quote by Andy Partridge about friendship, commerce, force, police
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...Quote by Andy Partridge about heroism, brain, football
I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.Quote by Andy Partridge about parents
I was a very snotty youth, I just didn't want to take what other people had done.Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion, youth, people
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 down to the record exchange.Quote by Andy Partridge about good, good luck
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.Quote by Andy Partridge about pain
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.Quote by Andy Partridge about music, rocks, being
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.Quote by Andy Partridge about parents, influence, mother
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.Quote by Andy Partridge about people
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.Quote by Andy Partridge about people
Straight back from America I went to a psychiatrist, hypnotist and all this other kind of stuff to try and get me sorted out.Quote by Andy Partridge about country
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 of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.Quote by Andy Partridge about brain, moon, wife, being, world
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.Quote by Andy Partridge about marriage