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Andy Partridge

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

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Akiroq Brost

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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"My father started me singing in church."

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Akiroq Brost

"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

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Akiroq Brost

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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Akiroq Brost

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

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Akiroq Brost

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"

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Akiroq Brost

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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Akiroq Brost

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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Akiroq Brost

"I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England."

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

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Andy Partridge
"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."

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

Father

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

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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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