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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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Donna Grant

"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."

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Donna Grant

"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

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Donna Grant

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

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Donna Grant

"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

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Donna Grant

"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

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Donna Grant

"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

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Donna Grant

"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

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Donna Grant

"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

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Donna Grant

"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

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Donna Grant

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

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

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Andy Partridge
"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."

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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
"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."

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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."

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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
"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."

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