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Andy Partridge is a British singer born on November 11, 1953. Known for his unique musical style and heartfelt lyrics, he is a founding member of the British rock band XTC.

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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.”

Looks Mean Important Names Groups Important Things Reasonable

Author:Andy Partridge

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

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“I felt pressured by continuous touring.”

Felt Touring Pressured

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“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.”

Knows Trying Bigs Brain Break Saws Football Hero Mets Beats England Studios Drunk Scotland My Hero Refrigerators Football Match

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“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.”

Ifs Matter Hands Records No Matter What Reactions Initials

Author:Andy Partridge

“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.”

Hands Faces Stones Pops Avant Garde Schizophrenic Kink

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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.”

People Years Firsts Fun Willing First Time Brands Gigs Brand New

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“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.”

Five Cost Paid Stealing Supposed To Be Pounds Equipment Gigs Petrol Marquee

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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.”

Two Lines Products Fine Get Better Songwriting Mixing Fine Lines

Author:Andy Partridge

“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.”

Knows Firsts Done Bigs Joy Hate Causes Heard Fans First Time Absolutes Albums Frustration Mixtures Hate Myself

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

Way Bigs Touring

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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.”

Want Art Ignored Adulation

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“I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt”

Looks Littles Book Fantasy Lovers Kissing Cameras Billions Ships Jealous Sail Flirting Snaps Skirts

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“Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed”

Sleep Knowing Lays Bread Feds Tape Lenses Daily Bread

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“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.”

Giving Heart Song Love Is Listening Rain Shining Tunes Without Love

Author:Andy Partridge

“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake”

Black Blood Land Grew Rain Good Things Colour Wicked Cake Harvest Icing

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“We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.”

Humans Real Mother Brave Slave Chiefs Whips Alchemy Babe

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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.”

Feels Should Singing Murder Ships Liberation Shouting Doorways Rudders

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“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?”

World Children Reason Names Land Surface Reason Why Virgins

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“Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds”

Men Dark Weight Soldier Blow Deeds Shoulders Symbols Weed Crowns Reign Hammers Reap Thorns Lambs Dressed Up Crown Of Thorns

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“Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey”

Play Film Window Miracle Dancing Silent Ballet Grey Melting Rainy Rainy Day Descending Backdrop Silent Films

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“The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold”

Men Soul Reason He Man Ego West Greed East Trapped Captains

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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.”

Knows Wells May Know How One Thing Love You Pounds Prize Nobel Mayors Nobel Prize Simpletons

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“I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad”

Believe Humans Soul I Believe Violence Sacred Naked Your Soul Fearful Printed Gauges Printed Word

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“Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary”

I Can Clothes Tongue Teeth Queens Poison Fairy Prose Santa Dictionary Bucks Tooth Fairy New Clothes

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“Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn”

Heart School Turns Brain Broken Lessons Pages Bent

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“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”

People Thinking I Can Bigs Seems Kids Lost Grows Sides Growing Up Okay Appreciation Miserable Toys Locks Childlike Grumpy

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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.”

Thinking Process Wonder Creative Creative Process Finite Vomiting

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

Ideas Conversation

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“You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.”

Country Shows Sound Watches Television Huge Guitar Backgrounds Awards Chorus

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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.”

Sound Interest Can Do Band

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“Success is being nothing but a quote.”

Author:Andy Partridge

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

People Written Feet Welcome Tempted Wipe

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

Mother Parent Influence Mom Motherhood

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“You may leave school, but it never leaves you.”

May School Criminal Mind Painless

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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.”

Play Running Pain Remember Car Terrible Guitar Nervous Nervous System San Diego

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“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.”

Fear Audience Middle Pure Eating France Fright

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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.”

Draws Responsible Competition Fantastic Pounds Tape Caricatures Recorders Getting Started

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“It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.”

Ifs Would Be Rocks Stupid Jazz Being Stupid Snobby

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“Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.”

Want Journey Settlement

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

Play Father Guitar Starting Influential

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About the Author

Born: November 11, 1953
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 42

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