79 Quotes by Andy Partridge

I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad.

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can’t jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That’s the only lesson you can learn.

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.

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.

You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It’s all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

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.

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.

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.

Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds.