"I'd at least like to be
given the chance to drive my brand new Rolls- Royce
into my ornamental pool, but unfortunately, I don't
possess either."
- Andy Partridge, 1989
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"For a while, we were the
Vasco Da Gamas of the 80s, really. It was largely
through uncaring and unthinking management - with
whom we eventually had a huge bust-up. We were just
going anywhere and everywhere for no apparent reason;
just to earn funds for other people. But then, as a
side issue, Andy got stage fright and couldn't really
handle it any more, so that was probably the right
time to stop."
- Colin Moulding, 1997
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"We were making Virgin
plenty of money--we guess conservatively about 35
million pounds and we were still in debt to them
after 15 years, so something was radically wrong with
our contract. "
- Andy Partridge, 1997
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"At various stages they'd
(Virgin) ask us to do things with our sound so they
could make more money from us. First it was the
Police, then Simple Minds got flung in briefly. But
then suddenly it was, 'We want you to sound like ZZ
Top - guitars are coming back in, and we know you can
do guitars.'"
- Andy Partridge, 2000
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