Andy Partridge Quotes

• You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

  Andy Partridge

  School, May, Criminal Mind

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• I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

  Andy Partridge

  Competition, Pounds, Tape

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• Success is being nothing but a quote.

  Andy Partridge

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• I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

  Andy Partridge

  Ideas, Conversation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Andy Partridge

  Feet, People, Wipe

  "Song: "Snowman" ("English Settlement")". February 12, 1982.

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• I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.

  Andy Partridge

  Appreciation, Growing Up, Kids

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• For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

  Andy Partridge

  Song, Rain, Heart

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• I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

  Andy Partridge

  People, Seeing

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• My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

  Andy Partridge

  Mom, Mother, Parent

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• I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad

  Andy Partridge

  Believe, Printed Word, Soul

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• Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

  Andy Partridge

  Queens, Clothes, Teeth

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• 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

  Cost, Gigs, Pounds

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• Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

  Andy Partridge

  Love You, Pounds, May

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• And all the world is football-shaped
  It's just for me to kick in space
  And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
  And I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime
  Trying to take this all in
  I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime
  Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime
  Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.

  Andy Partridge

  Football, Pain, Church Bells

  "Senses Working Overtime". Song by Andy Partridge, 1982.

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• If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

  Andy Partridge

  Hands, Records, Matter

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• 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

  Hands, Avant Garde, Stones

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• 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

  Fun, Years, People

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• 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

  Stupid, Rocks, Would Be

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• I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

  Andy Partridge

  Way, Touring, Bigs

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• Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

  Andy Partridge

  Heart, School, Broken

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• The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

  Andy Partridge

  Men, Greed, Ego

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• 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.

  Andy Partridge

  Art, Want, Ignored

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• Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

  Andy Partridge

  Rainy Day, Silent Films, Play

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• 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

  Two, Get Better, Mixing

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• Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds

  Andy Partridge

  Weed, Dark, Men

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