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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that! So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
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