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

Andy Partridge

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Andy Partridge
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 11
Guitarist
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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.
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I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.
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My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
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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.
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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
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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.
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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.
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Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
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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.
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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.
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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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Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
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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.
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