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1. "My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever." ~ Andy Partridge
2. "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
3. "I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me." ~ Andy Partridge
4. "Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour." ~ Andy Partridge
5. "I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way." ~ Andy Partridge
6. "I felt pressured by continuous touring." ~ Andy Partridge
7. "We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say." ~ Andy Partridge
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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." ~ Andy Partridge
11. "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." ~ Andy Partridge
12. "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." ~ Andy Partridge
13. "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
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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

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