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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."
Explore more quotes by Andy Partridge
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."
"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."
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