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

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Andy Partridge
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 11
Guitarist
Musician
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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.
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I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.
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