79 Quotes by Andy Partridge

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

The response has been so good, a little frightening, I must say. I'm a little humbled. The album is out of sync with everything that's happening today and people say wow! It's different.

People ask if we made this kind of record with an orchestra because of the classics and I say no, it's made up of the music I had stuffed into my ears as a kid,

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold.

Well I don’t know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I’ve never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that’s I love you.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you’ll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you’ll be glistening.

I’m a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I’m gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore – and I can’t seem to stop doing that.