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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."

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"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."

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"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

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

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Andy Partridge
"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it."

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

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

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Andy Partridge
"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."

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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."

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Andy Partridge
"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."

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Andy Partridge
"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

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Andy Partridge
"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."

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Andy Partridge
"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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