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 More Quotes by Andy Partridge More Quotes From 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. Andy Partridge avant-garde stones hands 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. Andy Partridge records matter hands 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. Andy Partridge scotland hero football 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. Andy Partridge pounds love-you may 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 Andy Partridge printed-word soul believe 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. Andy Partridge france eating fear 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 Andy Partridge broken heart school 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 Andy Partridge jealous kissing book It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. Andy Partridge rocks stupid would-be 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 Andy Partridge silent-films rainy-day play 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 Andy Partridge weed dark men And all the world is football-shaped Andy Partridge church-bells pain football Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour. Andy Partridge settlement journey want 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 Andy Partridge land rain blood 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. Andy Partridge real brave mother 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. Andy Partridge ships singing doorways 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? Andy Partridge land names children I felt pressured by continuous touring. Andy Partridge pressured touring felt 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. Andy Partridge vomiting creative thinking 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. Andy Partridge awards guitar country
