Quotes by Andy Partridge, page 2

Andy Partridge - english guitarist, singer

Was born on 19 nov 2008.

Origin country: United Kingdom

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.

Quote by Andy Partridge about time, people

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 equipment from The Marquee.

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.

Quote by Andy Partridge about country, joke

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.

Quote by Andy Partridge about art, music, magic

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.

Quote by Andy Partridge about city, country, being, people

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

Quote by Andy Partridge about chaos

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 my songwriting is getting better.

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.

Quote by Andy Partridge about opinion, hate, absolute, commerce, joy, time