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. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#diego #going #guitar #had #how

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

#faces #hand #i #kinks #like

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

#brand #brand new #early #first #first time

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

#adulation #anything #art #get #i

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#horribly #individuals #might #mundane #say