I don’t like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way. Andy Partridge Read Quote
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. Andy Partridge Read Quote
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. Andy Partridge Read Quote
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. Andy Partridge Read Quote
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. Andy Partridge Read Quote
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. Andy Partridge Read Quote
It’s sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. Andy Partridge Read Quote
I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. Andy Partridge Read Quote
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. Andy Partridge Read Quote