Andy Partridge

Famous quotes by Andy Partridge:

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

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

"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."

"People ask if we made this kind of record with an orchestra because of the classics and I say no, it's made up of the music I had stuffed into my ears as a kid,"

"The response has been so good, a little frightening, I must say. I'm a little humbled. The album is out of sync with everything that's happening today and people say wow! It's different."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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“Old-school players have beautiful technique – but they’re not so innovative with the actual sound”: ...

Guitar.com 24 Mar 2025

Back in 2023, he said he was “constantly disappointed” by it ... READ MORE ... He goes on ... Alongside McBride, Wilson also collaborated on the album with XTC’s Andy Partridge, who wrote lyrics, and his own wife Rotem, who provided spoken-word sections ... .

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‘They’re still under there, they never got out’: the Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage

The Observer 24 Mar 2025

View image in fullscreen ... First he became a pastry chef, having been introduced to finer cuisine by Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill when he produced their eponymous 2004 debut album. “He’d say, ‘Have you ever tried partridge?’” Hyde chuckles ... He grins.

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They Might Be Giants never saw making kids' albums as a permanent career pivot

AV Club 24 Mar 2025

It was sad for us, because he’d done the same thing with [Andy Partridge] on James And The Giant Peach ... So there must be a whole Andy Partridge album’s worth of songs from James And The Giant Peach.

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