79 Quotes by Andy Partridge

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.

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

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

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

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

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

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.

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.

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.