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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.
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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
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Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
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I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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